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Letter

Nature Physics 2, 101–104 (1 February 2006) | doi:10.1038/nphys218

Diffractive imaging of highly focused X-ray fields

H. M. Quiney , A. G. Peele , Z. Cai , D. Paterson & K. A. Nugent

The rapid development of new sources of coherent X-rays, such as third-generation synchrotrons, high-harmonic-generation lasers and X-ray free-electron lasers, has led to the emergence of the new field of X-ray coherent science. The extension of coherent methods to the X-ray regime makes possible methods such as coherent diffraction, X-ray photon-correlation spectroscopy, speckle interferometry and ultrafast probing at atomic resolution and femtosecond timescales.