The interaction of light, or photons, with matter underlies applications from imaging devices to fibre optic transmission of data to quantum computers.
Twisted light (light exhibiting orbital angular momentum) interacts in unique ways with matter, and harnessing its power could open the door to novel experiments and applications resulting from the production of mechanical motion in nanoscale matter with photons. Recently, it has been demonstrated the capability to vary the twist in time with a light pulse created using high-frequency harmonics.
With the EU-funded ATTOSTRUCTURA project, the theoretical and experimental foundations for ultra-fast magnetism exploiting ultra-short X-rays with angular momenta are going to be developed. For this, four main objectives have been defined:
To date, the following articles have been published in reputable scientific journals in relation to this objective.
- de las Heras, A., Hernández-García, C., & Plaja, L. (2020). Spectral signature of back reaction in correlated electron dynamics in intense electromagnetic fields. Physical Review Research, 2(3), 033047.
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033047
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/146876
2. Alonso, B., Lopez-Quintas, I., Holgado, W. et al. Complete spatiotemporal and polarization characterization of ultrafast vector beams. Commun Phys 3, 151 (2020).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-020-00419-w
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/144121
3. Laura Rego, Julio San Román, Luis Plaja, and Carlos Hernández-García, Trains of attosecond pulses structured with time-ordered polarization states, Opt. Lett. 45, 5636-5639 (2020)
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/147138
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/147138
4. Chang, K.-Y., Huang, L.-C., Asaga, K., Tsai, M.-S., Rego, L., Huang, P.-C., Mashiko, H., Oguri, K., Hernández-García, C., & Chen, M.-C. (2021). High-order Nonlinear Dipole Response Characterized by Extreme-Ultraviolet Ellipsometry. OSA High-brightness Sources and Light-driven Interactions Congress 2020 (EUVXRAY, HILAS, MICS), HF2B.5.
https://doi.org/10.1364/HILAS.2020.HF2B.5
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/147019
5. Rego, L., Hernández-García, C., Picón, A., & Plaja, L. (2020). Site-specific tunnel-ionization in high harmonic generation in molecules. New Journal of Physics, 22, 043012.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ab7dde
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/146648
6. Rego, L., Brooks, N. J., Nguyen, Q. L. D., San Roman, J., Binnie, I., Plaja, I., Kapteyn, H. C., Murnane, M. M., & Hernández-García, C. (2022). Necklace-structured high-harmonic generation for low-divergence, soft x-ray harmonic combs with tunable line spacing. Science Advances, 8(5), eabj7380.
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj7380
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/148574
7. Heras, A. de las, Pandey, A. K., Román, J. S., Serrano, J., Baynard, E., Dovillaire, G., Pittman, M., Durfee, C. G., Plaja, L., Kazamias, S., Guilbaud, O., & Hernández-García, C. (2022). Extreme-ultraviolet vector-vortex beams from high harmonic generation. Optica, 9(1), 71-79.
https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.442304
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/148315
8. López-Ripa, M., Sola, Í. J., & Alonso, B. (2022). Bulk lateral shearing interferometry for spatiotemporal study of time-varying ultrashort optical vortices. Photon. Res., 10(4), 922-931.
https://doi.org/10.1364/PRJ.448339
9. Pandey, A. K., de las Heras, A., Larrieu, T., San Román, J., Serrano, J., Plaja, L., Baynard, E., Pittman, M., Dovillaire, G., Kazamias, S., Hernández-García, C., & Guilbaud, O. (2022). Characterization of Extreme Ultraviolet Vortex Beams with a Very High Topological Charge. ACS Photonics, 9(3), 944-951.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.1c01768
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/157802
10. Boyero-García, R., García-Cabrera, A., Zurrón-Cifuentes, O., Hernández-García, C., & Plaja, L. (2022). High-order harmonic spectroscopy of polycrystalline graphene. Opt. Mater. Express, 12(9), 3543-3550.
https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.468125
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/150478
11. Fu, Z., Chen, Y., Peng, S., Zhu, B., Li, B., Martín-Hernández, R., Fan, G., Wang, Y., Hernández-García, C., Jin, C., Murnane, M., Kapteyn, H., & Tao, Z. (2022). Extension of the bright high-harmonic photon energy range via nonadiabatic critical phase matching. Science Advances, 8(51), eadd7482.
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add7482
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/152853
12. Pandey, A. K., de las Heras, A., Román, J. S., Serrano, J., Plaja, L., Baynard, E., Pittman, M., Dovillaire, G., Kazamias, S., Durfee, C. G., Hernández-García, C., & Guilbaud, O. (2022). Extreme-ultraviolet structured beams via high harmonic generation. The European Physical Journal Special Topics.
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-022-00678-4
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/150727
13. Martín-Hernández, R., Hu, H., Baltuska, A., Plaja, L., & Hernández-García, C. (2023). Fourier-Limited Attosecond Pulse from High Harmonic Generation Assisted by Ultrafast Magnetic Fields. Ultrafast Science, 3.
https://doi.org/10.34133/ULTRAFASTSCIENCE.0036
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/156215
14. Bliokh, K. Y., Karimi, E., Padgett, M. J., Alonso, M. A., Dennis, M. R., Dudley, A., Forbes, A., Zahedpour, S., Hancock, S. W., Milchberg, H. M., Rotter, S., Nori, F., Özdemir, Ş. K., Bender, N., Cao, H., Corkum, P. B., Hernández-García, C., Ren, H., Kivshar, Y., … Marquardt, F. (2023). Roadmap on structured waves. Journal of Optics (United Kingdom), 25(10).
https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8986/acea92
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/156236
15. Shen, Y., Zhan, Q., Wright, L. G., Christodoulides, D. N., Wise, F. W., Willner, A. E., Zou, K.-H., Zhao, Z., Porras, M. A., Chong, A., Wan, C., Bliokh, K. Y., Liao, C.-T., Hernández-García, C., Murnane, M., Yessenov, M., Abouraddy, A. F., Wong, L. J., Go, M., … Forbes, A. (2023). Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields. Journal of Optics (United Kingdom), 25(9).
https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8986/ace4dc
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/156233
16. Pablos-Marín, J. M., Serrano, J., & Hernández-García, C. (2023). Simulating macroscopic high-order harmonic generation driven by structured laser beams using artificial intelligence. Computer Physics Communications, 291.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2023.108823
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/156237
17. Galán, M. F., Serrano, J., Jarque, E. C., Borrego-Varillas, R., Lucchini, M., Reduzzi, M., Nisoli, M., Brahms, C., Travers, J. C., Hernández-García, C., & San Roman, J. (2024). Robust Isolated Attosecond Pulse Generation with Self-Compressed Subcycle Drivers from Hollow Capillary Fibers. ACS Photonics.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.3c01897
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/157804
18. de las Heras, A., Schmidt, D., San Román, J., Serrano, J., Barolak, J., Ivanic, B., Clarke, C., Westlake, N., Adams, D. E., Plaja, L., Durfee, C. G., & Hernández-García, C. (2024). Attosecond vortex pulse trains. Optica, 11(8), 1085-1093.
https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.517702
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/159513
19. Vismarra, F., Fernández-Galán, M., Mocci, D., Colaizzi, L., Segundo, V. W., Boyero-García, R., Serrano, J., Conejero-Jarque, E., Pini, M., Mai, L., Wu, Y., Wörner, H. J., Appi, E., Arnold, C. L., Reduzzi, M., Lucchini, M., San Román, J., Nisoli, M., Hernández-García, C., & Borrego-Varillas, R. (2024). Isolated attosecond pulse generation in a semi-infinite gas cell driven by time-gated phase matching. Light: Science & Applications, 13(1), 197.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-024-01564-5
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/159517
20. Shi, X., Liao, C.-T., Tao, Z., Cating-Subramanian, E., Murnane, M. M., Hernández-García, C., & Kapteyn, H. C. (2020). Attosecond light science and its application for probing quantum materials. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 53(18), 184008.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/aba2fb
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/146809
21. P. -C. Huang, C. Hernández-García, J. -T. Huang, P. -Y. Huang, L. Rego, C. -H. Lu, S. -D. Yang, L. Plaja, A. H. Kung, & M. -C. Chen. (2019). Realization of Polarization Control in High-Order Harmonic Generation. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 25(4), 1-12.
https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2019.2919777
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/146591
22. Dorney, K. M., Fan, T., Nguyen, Q. L. D., Ellis, J. L., Hickstein, D. D., Brooks, N., Zusin, D., Gentry, C., Hernández-García, C., Kapteyn, H. C., & Murnane, M. M. (2021). Bright, single helicity, high harmonics driven by mid-infrared bicircular laser fields. Opt. Express, 29(23), 38119-38128.
https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.440813
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/147497
23. de las Heras, A., San Román, J., Serrano, J., Plaja, L., & Hernández-García, C. (2024). Circularly Polarized High-Harmonic Beams Carrying Self-Torque or Time-Dependent Orbital Angular Momentum. ACS Photonics, 11(10), 4365-4373.
To date, the following articles have been published in reputable scientific journals in relation to this objective.
1. Óscar Zurrón-Cifuentes, Roberto Boyero-García, Carlos Hernández-García, and Luis Plaja, High harmonic generation in armchair carbon nanotubes, Opt. Express 28, 19760-19771 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.394714
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/146005
2. Roberto Boyero-García, Oscar Zurrón-Cifuentes, Luis Plaja, and Carlos Hernández-García, Transverse phase matching of high-order harmonic generation in single-layer graphene, Opt. Express 29, 2488-2500 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.412639
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/146004
3. Sytcevich, I., Guo, C., Mikaelsson, S., Vogelsang, J., Viotti, A.-L., Alonso, B., Romero, R., Guerreiro, P. T., Sola, Í. J., L’Huillier, A., Crespo, H., Miranda, M., & Arnold, C. L. (2021). Characterizing ultrashort laser pulses with second harmonic dispersion scans. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 38(5), 1546-1555.
https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.412535
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/147199
4. García-Cabrera, A., Hernández-García, C., & Plaja, L. (2021). Ultrafast sub-nanometer matter-wave temporal Talbot effect. New Journal of Physics, 23(9), 093011.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac1fcc
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/147197
5. García-Cabrera, A., Boyero-García, R., Zurrón-Cifuentes, Ó., Serrano, J., Román, J. S., Plaja, L., & Hernández-García, C. (2024). Topological high-harmonic spectroscopy. Communications Physics, 7(1), 28.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-023-01511-7
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/156166
6. Boyero-García, R., García-Cabrera, A., Zurrón-Cifuentes, O., Hernández-García, C., & Plaja, L. (2022). Non-classical high harmonic generation in graphene driven by linearly-polarized laser pulses. Opt. Express, 30(9), 15546-15555.
To date, the following articles have been published in reputable scientific journals in relation to this objective.
1. Martínez-Ojeda, R. M., Hernández-García, C., & Bueno, J. M. (2021). Enhancement of second harmonic microscopy images in collagen-based thick samples using radially polarized laser beams. Optics Communications, 499, 127273
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2021.127273
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/147446
2. Heras, A. de las, Pandey, A. K., Román, J. S., Serrano, J., Baynard, E., Dovillaire, G., Pittman, M., Durfee, C. G., Plaja, L., Kazamias, S., Guilbaud, O., & Hernández-García, C. (2022). Extreme-ultraviolet vector-vortex beams from high harmonic generation. Optica, 9(1), 71-79.
https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.442304
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/148315
3. Pandey, A. K., de las Heras, A., Larrieu, T., San Román, J., Serrano, J., Plaja, L., Baynard, E., Pittman, M., Dovillaire, G., Kazamias, S., Hernández-García, C., & Guilbaud, O. (2022). Characterization of Extreme Ultraviolet Vortex Beams with a Very High Topological Charge. ACS Photonics, 9(3), 944-951.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.1c01768
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/157802
4. Pandey, A. K., de las Heras, A., Román, J. S., Serrano, J., Plaja, L., Baynard, E., Pittman, M., Dovillaire, G., Kazamias, S., Durfee, C. G., Hernández-García, C., & Guilbaud, O. (2022). Extreme-ultraviolet structured beams via high harmonic generation. The European Physical Journal Special Topics.
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-022-00678-4
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/150727
5. Luttmann, M., Vimal, M., Guer, M., Hergott, J.-F., Khoury, A. Z., Hernández-García, C., Pisanty, E., & Ruchon, T. (2023). Nonlinear up-conversion of a polarization Möbius strip with half-integer optical angular momentum. Science Advances, 9(12).
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adf3486
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/156219
6. Martín-Domene, S., Sánchez-Tejerina, L., Martín-Hernández, R., & Hernández-García, C. (2024). Generation of intense, polarization-controlled magnetic fields with non-paraxial structured laser beams. Applied Physics Letters, 124(21), 211101.
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0197085
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/159509
7. Marco, D., Sánchez-López, M. D. M., Hernández-García, C., & Moreno, I. (2022). Extending the degree of polarization concept to higher-order and orbital angular momentum Poincaré spheres. Journal of Optics, 24(12), 124003.
To date, the following articles have been published in reputable scientific journals in relation to this objective.
1. Fu, Z., Chen, Y., Peng, S., Zhu, B., Li, B., Martín-Hernández, R., Fan, G., Wang, Y., Hernández-García, C., Jin, C., Murnane, M., Kapteyn, H., & Tao, Z. (2022). Extension of the bright high-harmonic photon energy range via nonadiabatic critical phase matching. Science Advances, 8(51), eadd7482
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add7482
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/152853
2. de las Heras, A., Bonafé, F. P., Hernández-García, C., Rubio, A., & Neufeld, O. (2023). Tunable Tesla-Scale Magnetic Attosecond Pulses through Ring-Current Gating. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 11160-11167.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02899
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/156240
3. Martín-Hernández, R., Grünewald, L., Sánchez-Tejerina, L., Plaja, L., Conejero Jarque, E., Hernández-García, C., & Mai, S. (2024). Optical magnetic field enhancement using ultrafast azimuthally polarized laser beams and tailored metallic nanoantennas. Photonics Research, 12(5), 1078-1092.
https://doi.org/10.1364/PRJ.511916
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/159506
4. Sánchez-Tejerina, L., Martín-Hernández, R., Yanes, R., Plaja, L., López-Díaz, L., & Hernández-García, C. (2023). All-optical non-linear chiral ultrafast magnetization dynamics driven by circularly polarized magnetic fields. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 1-9.
https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2023.71
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/153039
5. Martín-Domene, S., Sánchez-Tejerina, L., Martín-Hernández, R., & Hernández-García, C. (2024). Generation of intense, polarization-controlled magnetic fields with non-paraxial structured laser beams. Applied Physics Letters, 124(21), 211101.
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0197085
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/159509
6. Liao, C.-T., Hernandez-Garcia, C., & Murnane, M. M. (2021). Switching the Twist in X Rays with Magnets. Physics, 14, 34.