Ultrafast lasers reaching extremely high powers within short fractions of time enable a
plethora of applications. They grant advanced material processing capabilities, are effective …

X-ray free-electron lasers provide femtosecond-duration pulses of hard X-rays with a peak
brightness approximately one billion times greater than is available at synchrotron radiation …

Bright‐field imaging of nanoscale bioparticles is a challenging task for optical microscopy
because the light–matter interactions of bioparticles are weak on conventional surfaces due …

Minerals are solid state nuclear track detectors—nuclear recoils in a mineral leave latent
damage to the crystal structure. Depending on the mineral and its temperature, the damage …

Numerous advances have been made in X-ray technology in recent years. X-ray imaging
plays an important role in the nondestructive exploration of the internal structures of objects …

Diffraction before destruction using X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) has the potential to
determine radiation-damage-free structures without the need for crystallization. This article …

We publish three Roadmaps on photonic, electronic and atomic collision physics in order to
celebrate the 60th anniversary of the ICPEAC conference. In Roadmap I, we focus on the …

Intense x-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) pulses hold great promise for imaging function in
nanoscale and biological systems with atomic resolution. So far, however, the spatial …

Fourier transform holography (FTH) is a lensless imaging technique where the wave
scattered by an object is superimposed with the wave scattered by a reference source …

This fully updated second edition of Introduction to Holography provides a theoretical
background in optics and holography with a comprehensive survey of practical applications …