Letter abstract
Nature Photonics 2, 560 - 563 (2008)
Published online: 1 August 2008 | doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.154
Subject Category: Imaging and sensing
Massively parallel X-ray holography
Stefano Marchesini1,2,
Sébastien Boutet3,4,
Anne E. Sakdinawat5,
Michael J. Bogan1,
Sa
a Bajt1,6,
Anton Barty1,
Henry N. Chapman1,10,
Matthias Frank1,
Stefan P. Hau-Riege1,
Abraham Szöke1,
Congwu Cui2,
David A. Shapiro2,
Malcolm R. Howells2,
John C. H. Spence7,
Joshua W. Shaevitz8,
Joanna Y. Lee9,
Janos Hajdu3,4
&
Marvin M. Seibert4
Abstract
Advances in the development of free-electron lasers offer the realistic prospect of nanoscale imaging on the timescale of atomic motions. We identify X-ray Fourier-transform holography1, 2, 3 as a promising but, so far, inefficient scheme to do this. We show that a uniformly redundant array4 placed next to the sample, multiplies the efficiency of X-ray Fourier transform holography by more than three orders of magnitude, approaching that of a perfect lens, and provides holographic images with both amplitude- and phase-contrast information. The experiments reported here demonstrate this concept by imaging a nano-fabricated object at a synchrotron source, and a bacterial cell with a soft-X-ray free-electron laser, where illumination by a single 15-fs pulse was successfully used in producing the holographic image. As X-ray lasers move to shorter wavelengths we expect to obtain higher spatial resolution ultrafast movies of transient states of matter.
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
- Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Husargatan 3, Box 596, SE-75124 Uppsala, Sweden
- Centre for X-ray Optics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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DESY, Notkestra
e 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1504, USA
- Department of Physics and Lewis-Sigler Institute, 150 Carl Icahn Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 648 Stanley Hall #3220, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Centre for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Notkestrae 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
Correspondence to: Stefano Marchesini1,2 e-mail: smarchesini@lbl.gov
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