Electron vortex production and control using aberration induced diffraction catastrophes
An aberration corrected electron microscope is used to create electron diffraction catastrophes, containing arrays of intensity zeros threading vortex cores. Vortices are ascribed to these arrays using catastrophe theory, scalar diffraction integrals, and experimentally retrieved phase maps. From me...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Physical review letters 2013-01, Vol.110 (3), p.033901-033901, Article 033901 |
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Zusammenfassung: | An aberration corrected electron microscope is used to create electron diffraction catastrophes, containing arrays of intensity zeros threading vortex cores. Vortices are ascribed to these arrays using catastrophe theory, scalar diffraction integrals, and experimentally retrieved phase maps. From measured wave function phases, obtained using focal-series phase retrieval, the orbital angular momentum density is mapped for highly astigmatic electron probes. We observe vortex rings and topological reconnections of nodal lines by tracking the vortex cores using the retrieved phases. |
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ISSN: | 0031-9007 1079-7114 |
DOI: | 10.1103/physrevlett.110.033901 |