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A model for a new electron vortex beam production method is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The technique calls on the controlled manipulation of the degrees of freedom of the lens aberrations to achieve a helical phase front.…
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A ray-optics model is proposed to describe the vector beam transformation in a strongly focusing optical system. In contrast to usual approaches basing on the focused field distribution near the focal plane, we employ the transformed beam…
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The realization of electron vortex beams in the past decade has led to numerous proposed applications in fields from electron microscopy to control and manipulation of individual molecules. Yet despite the many unique characteristics and…
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