Soft X-ray Vortex Beam detected by In-line Holography
arXiv:2006.16552 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.14.064069
Abstract
We demonstrate the in-line holography for soft x-ray vortex beam having an orbital angular momentum. A hologram is recorded as an interference between a Bragg diffraction wave from a fork grating and a divergence wave generated by a Fresnel zone plate. The obtained images exhibit fork-shaped interference fringes, which confirms the formation of the vortex beam. By analyzing the interference image, we successfully obtained the spiral phase distribution. The results demonstrate that the in-line holography technique is promising for the characterization of topological magnets, such as magnetic skyrmions.
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