Free electron laser generation of X-ray Poincaré beams
Morgan, Jenny and Hemsing, Erik and McNeil, Brian W J and Yao, Alison (2020) Free electron laser generation of X-ray Poincaré beams. New Journal of Physics, 22 (July). 072001. ISSN 1367-2630
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Abstract
An optics-free method is proposed to generate x-ray radiation with spatially variant states of polarization via an afterburner extension to a free electron laser. Control of the polarization in the transverse plane is obtained through the overlap of different coherent transverse light distributions radiated from a bunched electron beam in two consecutive orthogonally polarised undulators. Different transverse profiles are obtained by emitting at a higher harmonic in one or both of the undulators. This method enables the generation of beams structured in their intensity, phase, and polarization - so-called Poincaré beams - at high powers with tunable wavelengths. Simulations are used to demonstrate the generation of two different classes of light with spatially inhomogeneous polarization - cylindrical vector beams and full Poincaré beams.
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Morgan, Jenny, Hemsing, Erik, McNeil, Brian W J ![]() ![]() | Item type: | Article |
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ID code: | 72572 |
Keywords: | Free Electron Lasers (FEL), electron beams, Poincaré beams, tunable wavelengths, Optics. Light, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics |
Subjects: | Science > Physics > Optics. Light |
Department: | Faculty of Science > Physics |
Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
Date deposited: | 04 Jun 2020 12:49 |
Last modified: | 21 Feb 2021 02:46 |
URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/72572 |
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