Transverse Electron Beam Shaping with Light

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.07925v2
• Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2023 14:57:48 GMT
• Title: Transverse Electron Beam Shaping with Light
• Authors: Marius Constantin Chirita Mihaila, Philipp Weber, Matthias Schneller, Lucas Grandits, Stefan Nimmrichter, Thomas Juffmann
• Abstract summary: Interfacing electrons and light enables ultrafast electron microscopy, quantum control of electrons, and new optical elements for high sensitivity imaging. Here we demonstrate for the first time programmable transverse electron beam shaping in free space based on ponderomotive potentials from short intense laser pulses.
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• Abstract: Interfacing electrons and light enables ultrafast electron microscopy, quantum control of electrons, as well as new optical elements for high sensitivity imaging. Here we demonstrate for the first time programmable transverse electron beam shaping in free space based on ponderomotive potentials from short intense laser pulses. We can realize both convex and concave electron lenses with a focal length of a few millimeters, comparable to those in state-of-the-art electron microscopes. We further show that we can realize almost arbitrary deflection patterns by shaping the ponderomotive potentials using a spatial light modulator. Our modulator is lossless, programmable, has unity fill factor, and could pave the way to electron wavefront shaping with hundreds of individually addressable pixels.

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