Single-Shot Diffractive Imaging with a Table-Top Femtosecond Soft X-Ray Laser-Harmonics Source

A. Ravasio; D. Gauthier; F. R. N. C. Maia; M. Billon; J.-P. Caumes; D. Garzella; M. Geleoc; O. Gobert; Jean-François Hergott; A.-M. Pena; H. Perez; B. Carré; E. Bourhis; J. Gierak; Ali Madouri; D. Mailly; B. Schiedt; Marta Fajardo; Julien Gautier; Philippe Zeitoun; P. H. Bucksbaum; J. Hajdu; H. Merdji

Single-Shot Diffractive Imaging with a Table-Top Femtosecond Soft X-Ray Laser-Harmonics Source

A. Ravasio ¹ D. Gauthier ¹ F. R. N. C. Maia ² M. Billon ¹ J.-P. Caumes ¹ D. Garzella ¹ M. Geleoc ¹ O. Gobert ¹ Jean-François Hergott ¹ A.-M. Pena ¹ H. Perez ¹ B. Carré ¹ E. Bourhis ³ J. Gierak ³ Ali Madouri ³ D. Mailly ³ B. Schiedt ³ Marta Fajardo ⁴ Julien Gautier ⁵ Philippe Zeitoun ⁵ P. H. Bucksbaum ⁶ J. Hajdu ^{2, 6} H. Merdji ^{1, 6}

1 SPAM - Service des Photons, Atomes et Molécules

2 Department of Cell and Molecular Biology-Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics

3 LPN - Laboratoire de photonique et de nanostructures

4 GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear

5 LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée

6 SLAC - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Abstract : Coherent x-ray diffractive imaging is a powerful method for studies on nonperiodic structures on the nanoscale. Access to femtosecond dynamics in major physical, chemical, and biological processes requires single-shot diffraction data. Up to now, this has been limited to intense coherent pulses from a free electron laser. Here we show that laser-driven ultrashort x-ray sources offer a comparatively inexpensive alternative. We present measurements of single-shot diffraction patterns from isolated nano-objects with a single 20 fs pulse from a table-top high-harmonic x-ray laser. Images were reconstructed with a resolution of 119 nm from the single shot and 62 nm from multiple shots.

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Physics [physics] / Physics [physics] / Optics [physics.optics]

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