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Title: Holography with a neutron interferometer

Abstract

We use a Mach-Zehnder interferometer to perform neutron holography of a spiral phase plate. The object beam passes through a spiral phase plate, acquiring the phase twist characteristic of orbital angular momentum states. The reference beam passes through a fused silica prism, acquiring a linear phase gradient. The resulting hologram is a fork dislocation image, which could be used to reconstruct neutron beams with various orbital angular momenta. This work paves the way for novel applications of neutron holography, diffraction and imaging.

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 [1];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [1]
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  1. Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada). Dept. of Physics; Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada). Inst. for Quantum Computing
  2. National Inst. of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD (United States)
  3. North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States); Triangle Univ. Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, NC (United States)
  4. National Inst. of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD (United States); Joint Quantum Inst., College Park, MD (United States)
  5. Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada). Inst. for Quantum Computing; Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada). Dept. of Chemistry; Perimeter Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON (Canada); Canadian Inst. for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON (United States)
  6. Joint Quantum Inst., College Park, MD (United States); Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA (United States). Physics and Engineering Physics Dept.
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Research Org.:
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE)
OSTI Identifier:
1465154
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-97ER41042
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Optics Express
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 24; Journal Issue: 20; Journal ID: ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher:
Optical Society of America (OSA)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING

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Sarenac, Dusan, Huber, Michael G., Heacock, Benjamin, Arif, Muhammad, Clark, Charles W., Cory, David G., Shahi, Chandra B., and Pushin, Dmitry A. Holography with a neutron interferometer. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1364/OE.24.022528.
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Sarenac, Dusan, Huber, Michael G., Heacock, Benjamin, Arif, Muhammad, Clark, Charles W., Cory, David G., Shahi, Chandra B., & Pushin, Dmitry A. Holography with a neutron interferometer. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.24.022528
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Sarenac, Dusan, Huber, Michael G., Heacock, Benjamin, Arif, Muhammad, Clark, Charles W., Cory, David G., Shahi, Chandra B., and Pushin, Dmitry A. Tue . "Holography with a neutron interferometer". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.24.022528. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1465154.
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@article{osti_1465154,
title = {Holography with a neutron interferometer},
author = {Sarenac, Dusan and Huber, Michael G. and Heacock, Benjamin and Arif, Muhammad and Clark, Charles W. and Cory, David G. and Shahi, Chandra B. and Pushin, Dmitry A.},
abstractNote = {We use a Mach-Zehnder interferometer to perform neutron holography of a spiral phase plate. The object beam passes through a spiral phase plate, acquiring the phase twist characteristic of orbital angular momentum states. The reference beam passes through a fused silica prism, acquiring a linear phase gradient. The resulting hologram is a fork dislocation image, which could be used to reconstruct neutron beams with various orbital angular momenta. This work paves the way for novel applications of neutron holography, diffraction and imaging.},
doi = {10.1364/OE.24.022528},
journal = {Optics Express},
number = 20,
volume = 24,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Tue Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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Fig. 1 Fig. 1: (a) The off-axis method of optical holography of semitransparent objects introduced by Leith and Upatnieks. The object here is a continuous-tone transparency; its hologram was recorded on a photographic plate. Redrawn from figures of [8]: the object shown here is actually the holographic reconstruction of the original object,more » said to be a good facsimile of the original. (b) An artistic depiction of the neutron holography experiment. A neutron enters a single-crystal silicon Mach-Zehnder neutron interferometer (NI) and is separated into two paths by the left beamsplitter (BS). A spiral phase plate (SPP) with q = 2 is placed in the lower path, generating the object beam; a prism tilts the wavefront of the upper path to provide the reference beam. Object and reference beams are reflected at the central BS, and are coherently combined at the right BS. One of the output beams of the right BS is sent to an imaging detector, the other to an integrating counter that serves as an intensity monitor. Note that the experiment is an expectation valued measurement over many events, each of which involves only a single neutron. That is, there is one neutron at a time in the NI and the hologram is build up from an incoherent superposition of many events.« less
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