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The laser invention more than fifty years ago was a major scientific revolution. Among the different possible gain media, the Free Electron Lasers (FEL) uses free electrons in the periodic permanent magnetic field of an undulator, covering…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 ME Couprie

We propose a feasible scenario to directly polarize a relativistic electron beam and obtain overall polarization in various directions through a filter mechanism for single-shot collision between an ultrarelativistic unpolarized electron…

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The integration of photonic components into surface ion traps provides a scalable approach for trapped-ion quantum computing, sensing, and metrology, enabling compact systems with enhanced stability and precision. However, the introduction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Guochun Du , Elena Jordan , Tanja E. Mehlstäubler

Low image contrast is a major limitation in transmission electron microscopy, since samples with low atomic number only weakly phase-modulate the illuminating electron beam, and beam-induced sample damage limits the usable electron dose.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-19 Jeremy J. Axelrod

We propose to use the lateral interface between two regions with different strengths of the spin-orbit interaction(s) to spin-polarize the electrons in gated two dimensional semiconductor heterostructures. For a beam with a non zero angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Khodas , A. Shekhter , A. M. Finkel'stein

With ever increasing availability of terahertz fields, it is important to find suitable detection techniques without compromising the measured dynamic range. Electro-optic terahertz sampling techniques, which are commonly used to detect…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 Gregory Bell , Michael Hilke

In this work we study the strong confinement effects on the electromagnetic response of metallic nanoparticles. We calculate the field enhancement factor for nanospheres of various radii by using optical constants obtained from both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-20 Mario Zapata-Herrera , Jefferson Flórez , Angela Camacho , Hanz Y. Ramirez

Phase distortions, or aberrations, can negatively influence the performance of an optical imaging system. Through the use of position-momentum entangled photons, we nonlocally correct for aberrations in one photon's optical path by…

Nonlinear light-matter interactions are typically enhanced by increasing the local field and its interaction time with matter. Conventional methods to achieve these goals are based on resonances or slow-light effects. However, these methods…

A new type of excitations by highly focused electron beams in scanning transmission electron microscopes is predicted for nanoparticles. The calculated electron energy loss spectra of metallic (silver) and insulating (SiO(sub2))…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-09 M. A. Itskovsky , H. Cohen , T. Maniv

We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally a new electromagnetic lensing concept using the magnetic vector potential - in a region free of classical electromagnetic fields - via the Aharonov-Bohm effect. This toroid-shaped lens with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-24 Makoto Tokoro Schreiber , Cathal Cassidy , Menour Saidani , Matthias Wolf

We construct an electron optical system to investigate Bragg diffraction (the crystal lattice plane, $10^{-2}$-$10^{-3}$ rad) with the objective lens turned off by adjusting the current in the intermediate lenses. A crossover was located on…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-06 Hiroshi Nakajima , Atsuhiro Kotani , Ken Harada , Shigeo Mori

We reveal the classical and quantum regimes of free electron interaction with radiation, common to the general variety of radiation sources (e.g. FEL, Smith-Purcell), Dielectric Laser Accelerator (DLA) and Photo-Induced Near-Field Electron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Yiming Pan , Bin Zhang , Avraham Gover

We theoretically demonstrate the ability of electron beams to probe the nonlinear photonic response with nanometer spatial resolution, well beyond the capabilities of existing optical techniques. Although the interaction of electron beams…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Andrea Konečná , Valerio Di Giulio , Vahagn Mkhitaryan , Claus Ropers , F. Javier García de Abajo

Photon-induced Near-field Electron Microscopy (PINEM) effect has revealed the quantum interaction between free electrons and optical near filed, which demonstrated plenty of novel phenomena of manipulating free electron wave packet and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Hongteng Lin , Xiaotong Xiong , Junjie Liu , Yidong Huang , Fang Liu

This work aims to study theoretically the electron-proton scattering for initially spin-polarized electrons in the presence of a circularly polarized electromagnetic field. Using the first Born approximation and the Dirac-Volkov states for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 I. Dahiri , M. Baouahi , M. Jakha , S. Mouslih , B. Manaut , S. Taj

Advances in the ability to manipulate free electron phase profiles within the electron microscope have spurred development of quantum-mechanical descriptions of electron energy loss (EEL) processes involving transitions between phase-shaped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-09 Marc R. Bourgeois , Austin G. Nixon , Matthieu Chalifour , David J. Masiello

The coherent interaction between free electrons and optical near-fields enables the active modulation of electron wave packets, a mechanism central to photon-induced near-field electron microscopy (PINEM). While existing theories…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Mads Brøndum Carlsen , Lars Bojer Madsen

The correction of multiple aberrations in an optical system requires different optical elements, which increases its cost and complexity. Metasurfaces hold great promise to providing new functionality for miniaturized and low-cost optical…

Point-spread function of the probe forming optics ($PSF_{optics} $) is reported for the first time in an uncorrected (without multipole correctors) scanning electron microscope (SEM). In an SEM, the electron probe information is lost as the…

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