Lensless diffractive imaging using tabletop coherent high-harmonic soft-X-ray beams.
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We present the first experimental demonstration of lensless diffractive imaging using coherent soft x rays generated by a tabletop soft-x-ray source. A 29 nm 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 214 nm resolution. This work demonstrates a practical tabletop lensless microscope that promises to find applications in materials science, nanoscience, and biology.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 99 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007