Large-angle convergent-beam setup for femtosecond X-ray crystallography

Davide Boschetto (1) , Christian Rischel (2) , I. Uschmann (3) , J. Perez (4) , S. Fourmaux (1) , D. Hulin (1) , E. Förster (3) , Antoine Rousse (1)

1 LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée
2 NBI - Niels Bohr Institute [Copenhagen]
3 X-ray Optics Croup Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics
4 LURE - Laboratoire pour l'utilisation du rayonnement électromagnétique

It is demonstrated how femtosecond plasma X-ray sources can be used to record X-ray diffraction images with many simultaneous reflections. A convergent-beam geometry was implemented and tested with a crystal of a small molecule [Fe-py3(tren)] as well as with a crystal of the protein lysozyme. The results pave the way for femtosecond X-ray crystallography.

Keywords: convergent beam; femtosecond X-ray crystallography; time-resolved diffraction

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]

Davide Boschetto, Christian Rischel, I. Uschmann, J. Perez, S. Fourmaux, et al.. Large-angle convergent-beam setup for femtosecond X-ray crystallography. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2003, 36 (2), pp.348-349. ⟨10.1107/S0021889802023452⟩. ⟨hal-00523129⟩