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X-Ray Holography

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Synchrotron Light Sources and Free-Electron Lasers

Abstract

With the dramatic increase in x-ray source brilliance and associated coherent photon flux, holography with x-rays has become feasible and is increasingly used for real-space investigations of static and dynamic properties of nanoscale systems. We describe the basic principles and capabilities of the method and present the current state of the art. A particular emphasis is put on the investigation of magnetic nanostructures, where x-ray holography has been applied at synchrotron radiation sources and free-electron x-ray lasers to investigate dynamic effects on time scales down to the femtosecond regime.

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Abbreviations

CCD:

Charge-coupled device

EUV:

Extreme ultraviolet

FEL:

Free-electron laser

FIB:

Focused ion beam

FTH:

Fourier-transform holography

FOV:

Field of view

FZP:

Fresnel zone plate

HERALDO:

Holography with extended reference by autocorrelation linear differential operation

HHG:

High-harmonic generation

SNR:

Signal-to-noise ratio

TIE:

Transport of intensity equations

URA:

Uniformly redundant array

XMCD:

X-ray magnetic circular dichroism

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  1. Department of Physics, Lund University, Box 118, 221 00, Lund, Sweden

    Bastian Pfau

  2. Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17, 10623, Berlin, Germany

    Stefan Eisebitt

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  1. Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, BESSY II, Berlin, Germany

    Eberhard J. Jaeschke

  2. Zentrum für Synchrotronstrahlung (DELTA), Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Shaukat Khan

  3. Center for Free-Electron Laser Science CFEL, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY , Hamburg, Germany

    Jochen R. Schneider

  4. LINAC Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, USA

    Jerome B. Hastings

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Pfau, B., Eisebitt, S. (2016). X-Ray Holography. In: Jaeschke, E., Khan, S., Schneider, J., Hastings, J. (eds) Synchrotron Light Sources and Free-Electron Lasers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14394-1_28

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