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Measuring the Orbital Angular Momentum of Electron Beams
- Source :
- Phys. Rev. A 89, 025803 (2014)
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- The recent demonstration of electron vortex beams has opened up the new possibility of studying orbital angular momentum (OAM) in the interaction between electron beams and matter. To this aim, methods to analyze the OAM of an electron beam are fundamentally important and a necessary next step. We demonstrate the measurement of electron beam OAM through a variety of techniques. The use of forked holographic masks, diffraction from geometric apertures, diffraction from a knife-edge and the application of an astigmatic lens are all experimentally demonstrated. The viability and limitations of each are discussed with supporting numerical simulations.<br />Comment: 5 pages, 4 figurse
- Subjects :
- Physics - Optics
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Quantum Physics
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- Phys. Rev. A 89, 025803 (2014)
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1401.7211
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.89.025803