Scattering of twisted light from a crystal

authored by

A. A. Peshkov, S. Fritzsche, A. Surzhykov

Abstract

Recent years have seen significant progress in the generation and application of twisted beams carrying orbital angular momentum. Here we study the elastic scattering of twisted Bessel light from a crystal and compare our predictions with the results for incident plane-wave radiation. Based on form-factor approximation our numerical calculations of the differential scattering cross sections have been carried out for a crystal of lithium at x-ray energies. It is shown that the use of twisted light can lead to a measurable change in the scattering cross section for the nanocrystals approaching a few nm in size.

External Organisation(s)

Helmholtz Institute Jena
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
National Metrology Institute of Germany (PTB)
Technische Universität Braunschweig

Type

Article

Journal

Physica scripta

Volume

94

ISSN

0031-8949

Publication date

02.08.2019

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Mathematical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ab1c74 (Access: Open)