Single-Shot Diffractive Imaging with a Table-Top Femtosecond Soft X-Ray Laser-Harmonics Source

Journal Article · Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 EDT 2009 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.103.028104· OSTI ID:21347047

Ravasio, A; Gauthier, D; Billon, M; Caumes, J-P; Garzella, D; Geleoc, M; Gobert, O; Hergott, J-F; Pena, A-M; Perez, H; Carre, B ^[1]; Bourhis, E; Gierak, J; Madouri, A; Mailly, D; Schiedt, B ^[2]; Fajardo, M ^[3]; Gautier, J; Zeitoun, P ^[4]

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1. Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Service des Photons, Atomes et Molecules, Batiment 522, Centre d'Etude de Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
2. Laboratoire de Photonique et Nanostructures, CNRS-UPR20, Route de Nozay, F-91460 Marcoussis (France)
3. Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Avenue Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa (Portugal)
4. Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquee, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Technique Avancees, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS UMR7639, Chemin de la Huniere, 91761 Palaiseau Cedex (France)

Coherent x-ray diffractive imaging is a powerful method for studies on nonperiodic structures on the nanoscale. Access to femtosecond dynamics in major physical, chemical, and biological processes requires single-shot diffraction data. Up to now, this has been limited to intense coherent pulses from a free electron laser. Here we show that laser-driven ultrashort x-ray sources offer a comparatively inexpensive alternative. We present measurements of single-shot diffraction patterns from isolated nano-objects with a single 20 fs pulse from a table-top high-harmonic x-ray laser. Images were reconstructed with a resolution of 119 nm from the single shot and 62 nm from multiple shots.

• OSTI ID: 21347047
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 103, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.028104; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
DIFFRACTION
FREE ELECTRON LASERS
HARMONICS
NANOSTRUCTURES
PULSES
SOFT X RADIATION
X-RAY LASERS
X-RAY SOURCES
COHERENT SCATTERING
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
IONIZING RADIATIONS
LASERS
OSCILLATIONS
RADIATION SOURCES
RADIATIONS
SCATTERING
X RADIATION