Ptychographic Fresnel Coherent Diffractive Imaging

This paper reports improved reconstruction of complex wave fields from extended objects. The combination of ptychography with Fresnel diffractive imaging results in better reconstructions with fewer iterations required to convergence than either method considered separately. The method is applied to retrieve the projected thickness of a gold microstructure and comparative results using ptychography and Fresnel diffractive imaging are presented.

[1]  J R Fienup,et al.  Phase retrieval algorithms: a comparison. , 1982, Applied optics.

[2]  S. Marchesini,et al.  High-resolution ab initio three-dimensional x-ray diffraction microscopy. , 2005, Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, image science, and vision.

[3]  K. Nugent,et al.  Unique phase recovery for nonperiodic objects. , 2003, Physical review letters.

[4]  J. Rodenburg,et al.  A phase retrieval algorithm for shifting illumination , 2004 .

[5]  I. Robinson,et al.  Reconstruction of the shapes of gold nanocrystals using coherent x-ray diffraction. , 2001, Physical review letters.

[6]  J. Miao,et al.  Imaging whole Escherichia coli bacteria by using single-particle x-ray diffraction , 2002, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

[7]  Andreas Menzel,et al.  Probe retrieval in ptychographic coherent diffractive imaging. , 2009, Ultramicroscopy.

[8]  A. G. Cullis,et al.  Hard-x-ray lensless imaging of extended objects. , 2007, Physical review letters.

[9]  A. G. Cullis,et al.  Transmission microscopy without lenses for objects of unlimited size. , 2007, Ultramicroscopy.

[10]  D. Paterson,et al.  Diffractive imaging of highly focused X-ray fields , 2006 .

[11]  J. Rodenburg,et al.  Movable aperture lensless transmission microscopy: a novel phase retrieval algorithm. , 2004, Physical review letters.

[12]  Garth J. Williams,et al.  Keyhole coherent diffractive imaging , 2008 .

[13]  J. Miao,et al.  Extending the methodology of X-ray crystallography to allow imaging of micrometre-sized non-crystalline specimens , 1999, Nature.

[14]  O. Bunk,et al.  High-Resolution Scanning X-ray Diffraction Microscopy , 2008, Science.

[15]  J. Miao,et al.  Phase retrieval from the magnitude of the Fourier transforms of nonperiodic objects , 1998 .

[16]  E. Wolf,et al.  Principles of Optics (7th Ed) , 1999 .

[17]  O. Bunk,et al.  Influence of the overlap parameter on the convergence of the ptychographical iterative engine. , 2008, Ultramicroscopy.

[18]  Garth J. Williams,et al.  Coherent diffractive imaging and partial coherence , 2007 .

[19]  Ali M. Khounsary,et al.  A beamline for 1–4 keV microscopy and coherence experiments at the Advanced Photon Source , 1996 .

[20]  M. D. de Jonge,et al.  Fresnel coherent diffractive imaging. , 2006, Physical review letters.

[21]  H M L Faulkner,et al.  Error tolerance of an iterative phase retrieval algorithm for moveable illumination microscopy. , 2005, Ultramicroscopy.

[22]  Keith A. Nugent,et al.  Quantitative coherent diffractive imaging of an integrated circuit at a spatial resolution of 20 nm , 2008 .