Generation of nondiffracting electron bessel beams

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Grillo, Vincenzo ^a   Karimi, Ebrahim ^b   Gazzadi, Gian Carlo ^a   Frabboni, Stefano ^a,c   Dennis, Mark R ^d   Boyd, Robert W ^b,e  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Optics; Quantum physics

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; HOLOGRAMS; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTICS;

DINGER EQUATION; INFINITE PLANE; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PHASE HOLOGRAMS; QUANTUM PHYSICS; TRANSVERSE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSVERSE INTENSITY PROFILES;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 84900332655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.011013     Document Type: Article

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