Ústav technické a experimentální fyziky Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics

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

NázevTitle
Quantized hard-x-ray phase vortices nucleated by aberrated nanolensesQuantized hard-x-ray phase vortices nucleated by aberrated nanolenses
Druh výsledkuResult type
Článek v časopiseJournal article
AutořiAuthors
K.M. Pavlov, D.M. Paganin, D.J. Vine, J.A. Schmalz, Y. Suzuki, K. Uesugi, A. Takeuchi, N. Yagi, A. Kharchenko, G. Blaj, J. Jakůbek, M. Altissimo, J.N. Clark
DOIDOI
10.1103/PhysRevA.83.013813
Časopis / citaceJournal / citation
Physical Review A. 2011, 83(1), 1-4. ISSN 1050-2947.
RokYear
2011
JazykLanguage
eng
WoSWoS
000286735800012
ScopusScopus
2-s2.0-78651455310
RIVRIV
RIV/68407700:21670/11:00191800!RIV12-MSM-21670___
ProjektProject
Využití radionuklidů a ionizujícího zářeníApplication of radionuclides and ionising radiation

AbstraktAbstract

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.

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.