Generation of coherent XUV vector/vortex beams in Argon gas jets
Vyacheslav V. Kim
1,*
,
Rashid A. Ganeev
1
1 Institute for Advanced Studies, New Uzbekistan University , Movarounnahr str. 1, Tashkent 100000, Uzbekistan
Abstract
We report an experimental demonstration of vector/vortex high-order harmonic beams produced in Argon gas jets. The orthogonal two-color pump was used to produce the polarization-structured vector and vortex beams. In the experiment, short 60~fs laser pulses propagated through the phase-modifying optical elements (S-waveplate) or vortex spiral phase plate (SPP), a thin 0.2~mm second harmonic crystal, and an Argon gas jet. The propagation of a radially polarized vector beam in the orthogonal polarization two-color pump scheme results in the generation of spatially structured odd- and even-order harmonics with variably polarized components along the beam profile. The intermediate states between radial and azimuthally polarized vector beams produce the harmonics with twisted wavefronts.
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Kim, V. and Ganeev, R., Generation of coherent XUV vector/vortex beams in Argon gas jets, Turanian J. Vol. 1, No. 2 (010205), 2025