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Refractive hard x-ray vortex phase plates

Seiboth, Frank ; Kahnt, Maik LU orcid ; Lyubomirskiy, Mikhail ; Seyrich, Martin ; Wittwer, Felix ; Ullsperger, Tobias ; Nolte, Stefan ; Batey, Darren ; Rau, Christoph and Schroer, Christian G. (2019) In Optics Letters 44(18). p.4622-4625
Abstract

In this Letter, we report on the creation of hard x-ray beams carrying orbital angular momentum of topological charge −ℏ and −3ℏ at a photon energy of 8.2 keV via spiral phase plates made out of fused silica by ultrashort-pulsed laser ablation. The phase plates feature a smooth phase ramp with a 0.5 μm nominal step height and a surface roughness of 0.5 μm. The measured vortex beams show submicrometer-sized donut rings and agree well with numerical modeling. Fused silica phase plates are potentially suited to manipulate the electromagnetic field in highly intense x-ray beams at x-ray free-electron laser sources.

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Optics Letters
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44
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18
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4 pages
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Optical Society of America
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0146-9592
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10.1364/OL.44.004622
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English
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  author       = {{Seiboth, Frank and Kahnt, Maik and Lyubomirskiy, Mikhail and Seyrich, Martin and Wittwer, Felix and Ullsperger, Tobias and Nolte, Stefan and Batey, Darren and Rau, Christoph and Schroer, Christian G.}},
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  series       = {{Optics Letters}},
  title        = {{Refractive hard x-ray vortex phase plates}},
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