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Thermal x-ray diffraction and near-field phase contrast imaging

Optics 2018-02-15 v4 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Using higher-order coherence of thermal light sources, the resolution power of standard x-ray imaging techniques can be enhanced. In this work, we applied the higher-order measurement to far-field x-ray diffraction and near-field phase contrast imaging (PCI), in order to achieve superresolution in x-ray diffraction and obtain enhanced intensity contrast in PCI. The cost of implementing such schemes is minimal compared to the methods that achieve similar effects by using entangled x-ray photon pairs.

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@article{arxiv.1606.03517,
  title  = {Thermal x-ray diffraction and near-field phase contrast imaging},
  author = {Zheng Li and Anton Classen and Tao Peng and Nikita Medvedev and Fenglin Wang and Henry N. Chapman and Yanhua Shih},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.03517},
  year   = {2018}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures

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