Focus

X-rays

New X-ray sources that combine laser technology with novel imaging techniques promise to probe the world around us at atomic spatial and temporal scales. This month, Nature Photonics presents a special focus issue dedicated to the latest advances in X-ray optics.

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Editorial

X-ray vision pp799

doi:10.1038/nphoton.2010.281


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Interview

Building X-ray lasers pp802 - 803

Interview with Paul Emma

doi:10.1038/nphoton.2010.276

The SLAC Linac Coherent Light Source is now the world's brightest source of coherent ångström-wavelength X-rays. Paul Emma, the man who made this achievement possible, spoke to Nature Photonics about the challenges involved.


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Reviews

X-ray free-electron lasers  pp814 - 821

Brian W. J. McNeil & Neil R. Thompson

doi:10.1038/nphoton.2010.239

The attosecond nonlinear optics of bright coherent X-ray generation  pp822 - 832

Tenio Popmintchev, Ming-Chang Chen, Paul Arpin, Margaret M. Murnane & Henry C. Kapteyn

doi:10.1038/nphoton.2010.256

Coherent lensless X-ray imaging  pp 706 - 714

Henry N. Chapman & Keith A. Nugent

doi:10.1038/nphoton.2010.240

Nanoscale X-ray imaging  pp 840 - 848

Anne Sakdinawat and David Attwood

doi:10.1038/nphoton.2010.267


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