{"id":23142,"date":"2020-07-08T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/old-x-rays-new-vision-a-nano-focused-x-ray-laser\/"},"modified":"2020-07-08T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T13:51:00","slug":"old-x-rays-new-vision-a-nano-focused-x-ray-laser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/old-x-rays-new-vision-a-nano-focused-x-ray-laser\/","title":{"rendered":"#Old X-rays, new vision: A nano-focused X-ray laser"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Old X-rays, new vision: A nano-focused X-ray laser<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Imagine taking movies<\/a> of the fastest chemical processes, or imaging atomic-scale detail of single virus particles without damaging them. Researchers from Japan have advanced the state-of-the-art in such endeavors, by enhancing the utility of a special X-ray laser for nanometer-scale measurements.<\/p>\n

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In a study recently published in Journal of Synchrotron Radiation<\/i>, researchers from Osaka University, in collaboration with RIKEN and Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), have reduced the beam diameter in an X-ray free-electron laser to 6 nanometers in width. This considerably improves the utility of these lasers for imaging structures closer to the atomic level than possible in prior work.<\/p>\n

To “see” extremely small and otherwise invisible objects, and observe ultrafast chemical processes, researchers commonly use synchrotron X-ray facilities. X-ray free-electron lasers are an alternative that can\u2014in principle\u2014image atomic-scale detail of, for example, a virus particle, on the timescale of an electron transition, without damaging the particle. To do this, you need an incredibly bright X-ray laser that focuses extremely fast laser pulses on the nanometer scale.
\n“Using multilayer focusing mirrors, we narrowed the width of our laser beam down to a diameter of 6 nanometers,” says lead author of the study Takato Inoue. “This is not quite the diameter of a typical atom, but we’re making good progress.”
\nUntil now, it has been difficult to focus X-ray free-electron lasers to such small diameters. That’s because of challenges in fabricating the required mirrors, and confirming the focused size of the lasers. The researcher team addressed the focusing problem by analyzing the shape of the laser’s interference patterns, known as speckle profiles.
\n“We generated speckle profiles by coherent X-ray scattering of randomly distributed metal nanoparticles,” explains Satoshi Matsuyama, senior author. “This enabled experimental measurements of the laser beam profile, which were in good agreement with theoretical calculations.”
\nBecause the laser beam diameter can be so precisely measured, further advancements are now feasible. For example, by using atoms for the scattering analysis, X-ray free-electron laser measurements can be improved to a 1-nanometer focus.
\nThe researchers anticipate that extremely high-intensity lasers, over a million trillion times brighter than the Sun, will now be useful for imaging ultrafast molecular processes\u2014at atomic-scale detail\u2014that are beyond the capabilities of the most advanced synchrotrons. With such technology<\/a>, protein molecules and other small important biological entities can be imaged without damaging them under the strategy of “diffraction before destruction,” by using a single laser pulse.<\/p>\n

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More information:<\/strong>
\n Takato Inoue et al. Generation of an X-ray nanobeam of a free-electron laser using reflective optics with speckle interferometry, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation<\/i> (2020). DOI: 10.1107\/S1600577520006980<\/p>\n

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