Few-cycle vortices from superradiant nonlinear Thomson scattering by a relativistic chirped mirror

We propose a scheme to generate few-cycle vortices based on nonlinear Thomson scattering by microbunched electrons from a circularly polarized laser pulse with chirped frequency. At sufficiently high intensities, the generation of harmonics that carry orbital angular momentum occurs. At the same tim...

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Main Authors: B. H. Schaap, P. W. Smorenburg, O. J. Luiten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2023-09-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.L032034