Small-angle scattering interferometry with neutron orbital angular momentum states
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| author | Sarenac, Dusan Henderson, Melissa E. Ekinci, Huseyin Clark, Charles W. Cory, David G. DeBeer-Schmitt, Lisa Huber, Michael G. Lailey, Owen White, Jonathan S. Zhernenkov, Kirill Pushin, Dmitry A. |
| author_facet | Sarenac, Dusan Henderson, Melissa E. Ekinci, Huseyin Clark, Charles W. Cory, David G. DeBeer-Schmitt, Lisa Huber, Michael G. Lailey, Owen White, Jonathan S. Zhernenkov, Kirill Pushin, Dmitry A. |
| contents | Access to the neutron orbital degree of freedom has been enabled by the recent actualization of methods to prepare and characterize neutron helical waves carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) at small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) facilities. This provides new avenues of exploration in fundamental science experiments as well as in material characterization applications. However, it remains a challenge to recover phase profiles from SANS measurements. We introduce and demonstrate a novel neutron interferometry technique for extracting phase information that is typically lost in SANS measurements. An array of reference beams, with complementary structured phase profiles, are put into a coherent superposition with the array of object beams, thereby manifesting the phase information in the far-field intensity profile. We demonstrate this by resolving petal-structure signatures of helical wave interference for the first time: an implementation of the long-sought recovery of phase information from small-angle scattering measurements. |
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| spellingShingle | Small-angle scattering interferometry with neutron orbital angular momentum states Sarenac, Dusan Henderson, Melissa E. Ekinci, Huseyin Clark, Charles W. Cory, David G. DeBeer-Schmitt, Lisa Huber, Michael G. Lailey, Owen White, Jonathan S. Zhernenkov, Kirill Pushin, Dmitry A. Applied Physics Optics Access to the neutron orbital degree of freedom has been enabled by the recent actualization of methods to prepare and characterize neutron helical waves carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) at small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) facilities. This provides new avenues of exploration in fundamental science experiments as well as in material characterization applications. However, it remains a challenge to recover phase profiles from SANS measurements. We introduce and demonstrate a novel neutron interferometry technique for extracting phase information that is typically lost in SANS measurements. An array of reference beams, with complementary structured phase profiles, are put into a coherent superposition with the array of object beams, thereby manifesting the phase information in the far-field intensity profile. We demonstrate this by resolving petal-structure signatures of helical wave interference for the first time: an implementation of the long-sought recovery of phase information from small-angle scattering measurements. |
| title | Small-angle scattering interferometry with neutron orbital angular momentum states |
| topic | Applied Physics Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00705 |