Femtosecond X-ray Fourier holography imaging of free-flying nanoparticles
- Technische Univ. Berlin (Germany). Inst. fur Optik und Atomare Physik (IOAP); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Inst. (PULSE)
- Technische Univ. Berlin (Germany). Inst. fur Optik und Atomare Physik (IOAP)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Inst. (PULSE)
- Technische Univ. Berlin (Germany). Inst. fur Optik und Atomare Physik (IOAP); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Uppsala Univ. (Sweden). Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Lab. of Molecular Biophysics
- Uppsala Univ. (Sweden). Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Lab. of Molecular Biophysics; European X-ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL), Hamburg (Germany)
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany). Center for Free-Electron Laser Science
- Uppsala Univ. (Sweden). Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Lab. of Molecular Biophysics, and Science for Life Lab., Division of Scientific Computing, Dept. of Information Technology
- Uppsala Univ. (Sweden). Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Lab. of Molecular Biophysics; Czech Academy of Science, Prague (Czech Republic). ELI Beamlines, Inst. of Physics; Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Gothenburg (Sweden)
- Czech Academy of Science, Prague (Czech Republic). ELI Beamlines, Inst. of Physics
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)
- Uppsala Univ. (Sweden). Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Lab. of Molecular Biophysics; KTH Royal Inst. of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden). AlbaNova Univ. Center, Dept. of Applied Physics, and Biomedical and X-ray Physics
- Uppsala Univ. (Sweden). Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Lab. of Molecular Biophysics, and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)
- Research Inst. for Solid State Physics and Optics, Budapest (Hungary)
- Uppsala Univ. (Sweden). Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Lab. of Molecular Biophysics; European X-ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL), Hamburg (Germany); Czech Academy of Science, Prague (Czech Republic). ELI Beamlines, Inst. of Physics
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Inst. (PULSE); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics
Ultrafast X-ray imaging on individual fragile specimens such as aerosols, metastable particles, superfluid quantum systems and live biospecimens provides high-resolution information that is inaccessible with conventional imaging techniques. Coherent X-ray diffractive imaging, however, suffers from intrinsic loss of phase, and therefore structure recovery is often complicated and not always uniquely defined. Here in this paper, we introduce the method of in-flight holography, where we use nanoclusters as reference X-ray scatterers to encode relative phase information into diffraction patterns of a virus. The resulting hologram contains an unambiguous three-dimensional map of a virus and two nanoclusters with the highest lateral resolution so far achieved via single shot X-ray holography. Our approach unlocks the benefits of holography for ultrafast X-ray imaging of nanoscale, non-periodic systems and paves the way to direct observation of complex electron dynamics down to the attosecond timescale.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division; German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF); German Research Foundation (DFG); Swedish Research Council (SRC); USDOE
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357; AC02-76SF00515; SC0012704
- OSTI ID:
- 1425332
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1423121; OSTI ID: 1433977
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-17234; BNL-203512-2018-JAAM; 142149
- Journal Information:
- Nature Photonics, Vol. 12, Issue 3; ISSN 1749-4885
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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