Femtosecond Diffractive Imaging with a Soft-X-ray Free-Electron Laser

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dc.creatorChapman, Henry N.
dc.creatorBarty, Anton
dc.creatorBogan, Michael J.
dc.creatorBoutet, Sebastien
dc.creatorFrank, Matthias
dc.creatorHau-Riege, Stefan P.
dc.creatorMarchesini, Stefano
dc.creatorWoods, Bruce W.
dc.creatorBajt, Sasa
dc.creatorBenner, W. Henry
dc.creatorLondon, Richard A.
dc.creatorPlonjes, Elke
dc.creatorKuhlmann, Marion
dc.creatorTreusch, Rolf
dc.creatorDusterer, Stefan
dc.creatorTschentscher, Thomas
dc.creatorSchneider, Jochen R.
dc.creatorSpiller, Eberhard
dc.creatorMoller, Thomas
dc.creatorBostedt, Christoph
dc.creatorHoener, Matthias
dc.creatorShapiro, David A.
dc.creatorHodgson, Keith O.
dc.creatorvan der Spoel, David
dc.creatorBurmeister, Florian
dc.creatorBergh, Magnus
dc.creatorCaleman, Carl
dc.creatorHuldt, Gosta
dc.creatorSeibert, M. Marvin
dc.creatorMaia, Filipe R. N. C.
dc.creatorLee, Richard W.
dc.creatorSzoke, Abraham
dc.creatorTimneanu, Nicusor
dc.creatorHajdu, Janos
dc.date2006-10-07
dc.date2006-10-10
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:29:51Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:29:51Z
dc.descriptionTheory predicts that with an ultrashort and extremely bright coherent X-ray pulse, a single diffraction pattern may be recorded from a large macromolecule, a virus, or a cell before the sample explodes and turns into a plasma. Here we report the first experimental demonstration of this principle using the FLASH soft X-ray free-electron laser. An intense 25 fs, 4 10^13 W/cm^2 pulse, containing 10^12 photons at 32 nm wavelength, produced a coherent diffraction pattern from a nano-structured non-periodic object, before destroying it at 60,000 K. A novel X-ray camera assured single photon detection sensitivity by filtering out parasitic scattering and plasma radiation. The reconstructed image, obtained directly from the coherent pattern by phase retrieval through oversampling, shows no measurable damage, and extends to diffraction-limited resolution. A three-dimensional data set may be assembled from such images when copies of a reproducible sample are exposed to the beam one by one.
dc.descriptionrevtex, 6 pages, 4 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0610044
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0610044
dc.identifierNature Physics 2, 839 - 843 (2006)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1038/nphys461
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/118269
dc.subjectOptics
dc.titleFemtosecond Diffractive Imaging with a Soft-X-ray Free-Electron Laser
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