Beyond crystallography: Diffractive imaging using coherent x-ray light sources

J Miao, T Ishikawa, IK Robinson, MM Murnane - Science, 2015 - science.org
X-ray crystallography has been central to the development of many fields of science over the
past century. It has now matured to a point that as long as good-quality crystals are …

Phase retrieval with application to optical imaging: a contemporary overview

Y Shechtman, YC Eldar, O Cohen… - IEEE signal …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of phase retrieval, ie, the recovery of a function given the magnitude of its
Fourier transform, arises in various fields of science and engineering, including electron …

Bright coherent ultrahigh harmonics in the keV x-ray regime from mid-infrared femtosecond lasers

T Popmintchev, MC Chen, D Popmintchev, P Arpin… - science, 2012 - science.org
High-harmonic generation (HHG) traditionally combines~ 100 near-infrared laser photons to
generate bright, phase-matched, extreme ultraviolet beams when the emission from many …

Spin angular momentum and tunable polarization in high-harmonic generation

A Fleischer, O Kfir, T Diskin, P Sidorenko, O Cohen - Nature Photonics, 2014 - nature.com
The roles of energy, momentum and orbital angular momentum conservation in high-
harmonic generation were studied in the past. Here, we explore the role of spin angular …

Generation of bright phase-matched circularly-polarized extreme ultraviolet high harmonics

O Kfir, P Grychtol, E Turgut, R Knut, D Zusin… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Circularly-polarized extreme ultraviolet and X-ray radiation is useful for analysing the
structural, electronic and magnetic properties of materials. To date, such radiation has only …

Non-collinear generation of angularly isolated circularly polarized high harmonics

DD Hickstein, FJ Dollar, P Grychtol, JL Ellis, R Knut… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
We generate angularly isolated beams of circularly polarized extreme ultraviolet light
through the first implementation of non-collinear high harmonic generation with circularly …

Bright circularly polarized soft X-ray high harmonics for X-ray magnetic circular dichroism

T Fan, P Grychtol, R Knut… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
We demonstrate, to our knowledge, the first bright circularly polarized high-harmonic beams
in the soft X-ray region of the electromagnetic spectrum, and use them to implement X-ray …

Ultraviolet surprise: Efficient soft x-ray high-harmonic generation in multiply ionized plasmas

D Popmintchev, C Hernández-García, F Dollar… - Science, 2015 - science.org
High-harmonic generation is a universal response of matter to strong femtosecond laser
fields, coherently upconverting light to much shorter wavelengths. Optimizing the conversion …

Oversampling smoothness: an effective algorithm for phase retrieval of noisy diffraction intensities

JA Rodriguez, R Xu, CC Chen, Y Zou… - Journal of applied …, 2013 - journals.iucr.org
Coherent diffraction imaging (CDI) is high-resolution lensless microscopy that has been
applied to image a wide range of specimens using synchrotron radiation, X-ray free-electron …

Generation of bright isolated attosecond soft X-ray pulses driven by multicycle midinfrared lasers

MC Chen, C Mancuso… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
High harmonic generation driven by femtosecond lasers makes it possible to capture the
fastest dynamics in molecules and materials. However, to date the shortest subfemtosecond …