Coherently amplified ultrafast imaging using a free-electron interferometer

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04877v2
• Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 09:05:39 GMT
• Title: Coherently amplified ultrafast imaging using a free-electron interferometer
• Authors: Tomer Bucher, Harel Nahari, Hanan Herzig Sheinfux, Ron Ruimy, Arthur Niedermayr, Raphael Dahan, Qinghui Yan, Yuval Adiv, Michael Yannai, Jialin Chen, Yaniv Kurman, Sang Tae Park, Daniel J. Masiel, Eli Janzen, James H. Edgar, Fabrizio Carbone, Guy Bartal, Shai Tsesses, Frank H. L. Koppens, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Ido Kaminer,
• Abstract summary: Free-Electron Ramsey Imaging (IFER) is a microscopy approach based on light-induced electron modulation. We provide time-, space-, and phase-resolved measurements of a micro-drum made from a hexagonal boron nitride membrane. Our experiments show a 20-fold coherent amplification of the near-field signal compared to conventional electron near-field imaging.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Accessing the low-energy non-equilibrium dynamics of materials and their polaritons with simultaneous high spatial and temporal resolution has been a bold frontier of electron microscopy in recent years. One of the main challenges lies in the ability to retrieve extremely weak signals while simultaneously disentangling amplitude and phase information. Here, we present Free-Electron Ramsey Imaging (FERI), a microscopy approach based on light-induced electron modulation that enables coherent amplification of optical near-fields in electron imaging. We provide simultaneous time-, space-, and phase-resolved measurements of a micro-drum made from a hexagonal boron nitride membrane visualizing the sub-cycle dynamics of 2D polariton wavepackets therein. The phase-resolved measurements reveals vortex-anti-vortex singularities on the polariton wavefronts, together with an intriguing phenomenon of a traveling wave mimicking the amplitude profile of a standing wave. Our experiments show a 20-fold coherent amplification of the near-field signal compared to conventional electron near-field imaging, resolving peak field intensities in the order of ~W/cm2, corresponding to field amplitudes of a few kV/m. As a result, our work paves the way for spatio-temporal electron microscopy of biological specimens and quantum materials, exciting yet delicate samples that are currently difficult to investigate.

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