Quantized hard-x-ray phase vortices nucleated by aberrated nanolenses

Pavlov, Konstantin M; Paganin, David M; Jakubek, Jan; Altissimo, Matteo; Clark, Jesse N; Vine, David J; Schmalz, Jelena; Suzuki, Yoshio; Uesugi, Kentaro; Takeuchi, Akihisa; Yagi, Naoto; Kharchenko, Alexander; Blaj, Gabriel

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.83.013813

Author(s)

Pavlov, Konstantin M

Paganin, David M

Jakubek, Jan

Altissimo, Matteo

Clark, Jesse N

Vine, David J

Schmalz, Jelena

Suzuki, Yoshio

Uesugi, Kentaro

Takeuchi, Akihisa

Yagi, Naoto

Kharchenko, Alexander

Blaj, Gabriel

Publication Date

2011

Abstract

Quantized x-ray phase vortices, namely, screw-type topological defects in the wave fronts of a coherent monochromatic scalar x-ray wave field, may be spontaneously nucleated by x-ray lenses. Phase retrieval is used to reconstruct the phase and amplitude of the complex disturbance created by aberrated gold nanolenses illuminated with hard x rays. A nanoscale quantized x-ray vortex-antivortex dipole is observed, manifest both as a pair of opposite-helicity branch points in the Riemann sheets of the multivalued x-ray phase map of the complex x-ray field and in the vorticity of the associated Poynting vector field.

Citation

Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics), 83(1), p. 013813-1-013813-7

ISSN

1094-1622

1050-2947

2469-9934

2469-9926

Link

https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/8293

Language

Publisher

American Physical Society

Title

Quantized hard-x-ray phase vortices nucleated by aberrated nanolenses

Type of document

Journal Article

Entity Type

Publication

Author(s)	Pavlov, Konstantin M Paganin, David M Jakubek, Jan Altissimo, Matteo Clark, Jesse N Vine, David J Schmalz, Jelena Suzuki, Yoshio Uesugi, Kentaro Takeuchi, Akihisa Yagi, Naoto Kharchenko, Alexander Blaj, Gabriel
Publication Date	2011
Abstract	Quantized x-ray phase vortices, namely, screw-type topological defects in the wave fronts of a coherent monochromatic scalar x-ray wave field, may be spontaneously nucleated by x-ray lenses. Phase retrieval is used to reconstruct the phase and amplitude of the complex disturbance created by aberrated gold nanolenses illuminated with hard x rays. A nanoscale quantized x-ray vortex-antivortex dipole is observed, manifest both as a pair of opposite-helicity branch points in the Riemann sheets of the multivalued x-ray phase map of the complex x-ray field and in the vorticity of the associated Poynting vector field.
Citation	Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics), 83(1), p. 013813-1-013813-7
ISSN	1094-1622 1050-2947 2469-9934 2469-9926
Link	https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/8293
Language	en
Publisher	American Physical Society
Title	Quantized hard-x-ray phase vortices nucleated by aberrated nanolenses
Type of document	Journal Article
Entity Type	Publication

Quantized hard-x-ray phase vortices nucleated by aberrated nanolenses

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