Lensless diffractive imaging using tabletop coherent high-harmonic soft-X-ray beams

Richard L. Sandberg*, Ariel Paul, Daisy A. Raymondson, Steffen Hädrich, David M. Gaudiosi, Jim Holtsnider, Ra'anan I. Tobey, Oren Cohen, Margaret M. Murnane, Henry C. Kapteyn, Changyong Song, Jianwei Miao, Yanwei Liu, Farhad Salmassi

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

287 Scopus citations

Abstract

We present the first experimental demonstration of lensless diffractive imaging using coherent soft x rays generated by a tabletop soft-x-ray source. A 29nm high harmonic beam illuminates an object, and the subsequent diffraction is collected on an x-ray CCD camera. High dynamic range diffraction patterns are obtained by taking multiple exposures while blocking small-angle diffraction using beam blocks of varying size. These patterns reconstruct to images with 214nm resolution. This work demonstrates a practical tabletop lensless microscope that promises to find applications in materials science, nanoscience, and biology.

Original languageEnglish
Article number098103
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume99
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 29 Aug 2007
Externally publishedYes

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Lensless diffractive imaging using tabletop coherent high-harmonic soft-X-ray beams'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this