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ArticleScience advances2023

Free-electron Ramsey-type interferometry for enhanced amplitude and phase imaging of nearfields.

Tomer Bucher, Ron Ruimy, Shai Tsesses, Raphael Dahan, Guy Bartal, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Ido Kaminer

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Article in Science advances, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Tomer BucherAndrew and Erna Viterbi Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-7899-5672
Ron RuimyAndrew and Erna Viterbi Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel.
Shai TsessesAndrew and Erna Viterbi Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-0167-3402
Raphael DahanSolid State Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-8931-1822
Guy BartalAndrew and Erna Viterbi Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-0554-4192
Giovanni Maria VanacoreDepartment of Material Science, University of Milano-Bicocca, Via Cozzi 55, 20121 Milano, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7228-7982
Ido KaminerAndrew and Erna Viterbi Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-2691-1892
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology · ILUniversity of Milano-Bicocca · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The complex range of interactions between electrons and electromagnetic fields gave rise to countless scientific and technological advances. A prime example is photon-induced nearfield electron microscopy (PINEM), enabling the detection of confined electric fields in illuminated nanostructures with unprecedented spatial resolution. However, PINEM is limited by its dependence on strong fields, making it unsuitable for sensitive samples, and its inability to resolve complex phasor information. Here, we leverage the nonlinear, overconstrained nature of PINEM to present an algorithmic microscopy approach, achieving far superior nearfield imaging capabilities. Our algorithm relies on free-electron Ramsey-type interferometry to produce orders-of-magnitude improvement in sensitivity and ambiguity-immune nearfield phase reconstruction, both of which are optimal when the electron exhibits a fully quantum behavior. Our results demonstrate the potential of combining algorithmic approaches with state-of-the-art modalities in electron microscopy and may lead to various applications from imaging sensitive biological samples to performing full-field tomography of confined light.

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