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

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
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Publisher
American Physical Society
Title
Quantized hard-x-ray phase vortices nucleated by aberrated nanolenses
Type of document
Journal Article
Entity Type
Publication

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