Few-cycle vortex beam generated from self-compression of mid-infrared femtosecond vortex beam in thin plates

Abstract

We demonstrate theoretically that few-cycle vortex beam with subterawatt peak power can be generated by self-compression of mid-infrared femtosecond vortex beam using the thin-plate scheme. The 3 μm femtosecond vortex beam with input duration of 90 fs is compressed to 15.1 fs with the vortex characteristics preserved. The conversion efficiency is as high as 91.5% and the peak power reaches 0.18 TW. The generation of the high-peak-power few-cycle vortex beam is owing to the proper spatiotemporal match by this novel scheme, where the spectrum is broadened enough, the negative group velocity dispersion can compensate the positive chirp induced by nonlinear effects, and multiple filamentation is inhibited for the keeping of the vortex characteristics. Our work will help to generate isolated attosecond vortices, opening a new perspective in ultrafast science.

8 pages, 5 figures

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