Massively parallel X-ray holography

Journal Article · Fri Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 2008 · Nature Photonics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2008.154· OSTI ID:1164079

Spence, John C.H ^[1]; Marchesini, Stefano ^[2]; Boutet, Sebastien ^[3]; Sakdinawat, Anne E. ^[4]; Bogan, Michael J. ^[5]; Bajt, Sasa ^[5]; Barty, Anton ^[5]; Chapman, Henry N. ^[5]; Frank, Matthias ^[5]; Hau-Riege, Stefan P. ^[5]; Szöke, Abraham ^[5]; Cui, Congwu ^[6]; Shapiro, David A. ^[6]; Howells, MAlcolm R. ^[6]; Shaevitz, Joshua W ^[7]; Lee, Joanna Y. ^[8]; Hajdu, Janos ^[9]; Seibert, Marvin M. ^[10]

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1. Arizona State University; Arizona State University
2. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley
3. Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
4. , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
5. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
6. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
7. Lewis-Sigler Institute
8. University of California, Berkeley
9. 3Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
10. Uppsala University

Advances in the development of free-electron lasers offer the realistic prospect of nanoscale imaging on the timescale of atomic motions. We identify X-ray Fourier-transform holography1,2,3 as a promising but, so far, inefficient scheme to do this. We show that a uniformly redundant array4 placed next to the sample, multiplies the efficiency of X-ray Fourier transform holography by more than three orders of magnitude, approaching that of a perfect lens, and provides holographic images with both amplitude- and phase-contrast information. The experiments reported here demonstrate this concept by imaging a nano-fabricated object at a synchrotron source, and a bacterial cell with a soft-X-ray free-electron laser, where illumination by a single 15-fs pulse was successfully used in producing the holographic image. As X-ray lasers move to shorter wavelengths we expect to obtain higher spatial resolution ultrafast movies of transient states of matter

• Research Organization: John Spence/Arizona State University
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)
• DOE Contract Number: FG03-02ER45996
• OSTI ID: 1164079
• Journal Information: Nature Photonics, Journal Name: Nature Photonics
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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