Focus
X-rays
- Focus issue:
- December 2010 Volume 4 No 12 pp799-882
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.
Editorial
X-ray vision - pp799
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2010.281
Full text - Information storage | PDF (200 KB) - Information storage
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.
Full text - Building X-ray lasers | PDF (421 KB) - Building X-ray lasers
Reviews
X-ray free-electron lasers - pp814 - 821
Brian W. J. McNeil & Neil R. Thompson
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2010.239
Abstract - X-ray free-electron lasers | Full text - Photonic quantum technologies | PDF (2,366 KB) - X-ray free-electron lasers
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
Abstract - The attosecond nonlinear optics of bright coherent X-ray generation | Full text - The attosecond nonlinear optics of bright coherent X-ray generation | PDF (4,131KB) - The attosecond nonlinear optics of bright coherent X-ray generation
Coherent lensless X-ray imaging - pp 706 - 714
Henry N. Chapman & Keith A. Nugent
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2010.240
Abstract - Coherent lensless X-ray imaging | Full text - Coherent lensless X-ray imaging | PDF (286 KB) - Coherent lensless X-ray imaging
Nanoscale X-ray imaging - pp 840 - 848
Anne Sakdinawat and David Attwood
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2010.267
Abstract - Nanoscale X-ray imaging | Full text - Nanoscale X-ray imaging | PDF (2,289 KB) - Nanoscale X-ray imaging