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A finite difference scheme for integrating the Takagi-Taupin equations on an arbitrary orthogonal grid

Calculating dynamical diffraction patterns for X-ray topography and similar x-ray scattering-imaging techniques require the numerical integration of the Takagi-Taupin equations. This is usually performed with a simple second order finite difference scheme on a sheared computational grid with two of the axes aligned with the wave vectors of the incident and scattered beams respectively. This dictates, especially at low scattering angles, an oblique grid of uneven step-sizes. Here we present a finite difference scheme that carries out this integration in slab-shaped samples on an arbitrary orthogonal grid by implicitly utilizing Fourier interpolation. The scheme achieves the expected second order convergence and a similar error to the traditional approach on similarly dense grids.