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Singleshot pol yc hr omatic coherent diffractive
imaging with a high-or der harmonic sour ce
E RIK M A L M , 1,* H AMPUS W IKMARK , 1 B ASTIAN P F A U , 2 P A B L O
V ILLANUEV A - P E R E Z , 1 P I O T R R U D A W S K I , 1 J ASPER P ESCHEL , 1
S Y L VA I N M A C L O T , 1 M ICHAEL S CHNEIDER , 2 S T E F A N E ISEBITT , 2
A NDERS M IKKELSEN , 1 A NNE L’H UILLIER , 1 AND P E R J OHNSSON 1
1 Department of Physics, Lund U niv er sity , P .O. Bo x 118, SE-22100 L und, Sw eden
2 Max Born Institute f or N onlinear Op tics and Short Pulse Spectr oscopy , Max-Born-Str . 2A, 1248 Ber lin,
Germany
* [email protected]
Abstract:
Singleshot pol y c hromatic coherent diffractiv e imaging is per f ormed with a high-
intensity high-order har monic g eneration source. The coherence proper ties are anal yzed and
se v eral reconstructions sho w the shot-to-shot fluctuations of the incident beam w a v efront. The
method is based on a multi-step approach. Firs t, the spectr um is e xtracted from double-slit
diffraction data. The spectrum is used as input to e xtract the monochromatic sample diffraction
patter n, then phase retr ie val is perf or med on the quasi-monoc hromatic data to obtain the sample’s
e xit sur f ace wa v e. R econstructions based on guided er ror reduction (ER) and alter nating direction
method of multipliers (ADMM) are compared. ADMM allo w s additional penalty ter ms to be
included in the cost functional to promote sparsity within the recons tr uction.
© 2020 Optical Society of America under the ter ms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Ag reement
1. Intr oduction
Extreme ultra violet (XUV) and X -ra y microscop y has sho wn the ability to image samples
with nanometer spatial and f emtosecond temporal resolutions. While high-resolution X -ra y
imaging made its breakthrough at synchrotron-radiation sources deliv er ing the required high
photon flux, ne w ly de v eloped laborator y sources ha v e become increasingl y attractiv e f or such
imaging applications. Generally , e xper iments using laborator y sources are motiv ated b y the better
accessibility and b y more e xtensiv e possibilities to tailor the apparatus to the e xper iment compared
to g ener ic instruments at larg e-scale facilities. Ev en more impor tantly , shor t-pulse-laser -dr iv en
XUV and X -ra y sources promise pump-probe time-resol v ed e xper iments with pulse durations
do wn to f e w f emtoseconds and typicall y v er y lo w ar r iv al jitter betw een pump and probe. These
sources par ticular l y compr ise plasma-based XUV lasers and high-order har monic g eneration
(HHG) sources. As both sources deliv er inherentl y coherent radiation, coherent imaging methods
including holograph y [ 1 , 2 ], coherent diffractiv e imaging (CDI) [ 3 – 8 ], and pty chograph y [ 9 – 11 ]
are pref erabl y applied. These methods ha v e the additional adv antage that the y dispense of an y
X -ra y imaging optics which typicall y ha v e a limited photon efficiency and which can introduce
aber rations.
Despite the e x cellent time-resolution deliv ered b y the laborator y sources and despite continuous
de v elopment of sources [ 12 ] and imaging methods, time-resol v ed imaging e xper iments ha v e
hardl y been realized [ 13 ]. As an e x ception, nanosecond oscillations of sub-micron cantile v ers ha v e
been imag ed using an XUV laser source [ 14 ]. A t HHG sources, single-shot f emtosecond-pulse
imaging has been demonstrated [ 8 ]. The de v elopment is mainl y impeded b y the lo w a v erage
photon flux of all laborator y sources whic h mak es it difficult to realize spatiall y and time-resol v ed
e xper iments on typicall y w eakl y scatter ing specimens. One strategy to o v ercome the fluence
limitation is to e xploit the photons deliv ered b y the source more efficientl y f or the imaging
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process. In par ticular at HHG sources, the emitted spectr um, typicall y containing se v eral, almost
discrete har monics of the driving laser , is typically spectrall y filtered to a single w a v elength f or
the imaging e xper iment. The monoc hromatization discards most of the photons g enerated in
the HHG process. In order to full y utilize HHG sources f or coherent imaging, it is impor tant
to de v elop approaches that can relax the temporal coherence and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)
requirements needed f or successful reconstructions.
In this paper , w e repor t results from single-shot CDI from ultra-shor t poly chromatic pulses
pro vided b y a high-intensity HHG source. Specifically , w e use HHG pulses containing sev eral
har monics to imag e an aper ture sample and shot-to-shot wa v efront variations. The XUV spectr um
at the sample location is c haracter ized in double-slit measurements and additionall y compared to
v alues obtained from an XUV spectrometer . From the spectral intensities, w e then reco v er a
pseudo-monochromatic diffraction pattern which is f ed into the CDI reconstr uction algorithm
[ 15 ]. There ha v e been se v eral e xper iments whic h ha v e utilized the pol y chromatic spectra of the
source [ 15 – 17 ] with recent progress being made that is based on a tw o-pulse approach [ 18 ].
Plane-w av e CDI places the least res tr ictions on the sample and optics – it onl y needs the
sample to be isolated to ensure a sufficientl y high sampling of the measured intensity . T o reco v er
the phase lost in the detection process, numer ical approac hes ha v e been devised whic h w ork b y
projecting the estimate betw een constraint sets in an iterativ e f ashion [ 19 ]. The most common
a priori kno w ledge used in these algorithms is the sample suppor t (suppor t constraint) and
the measured diffraction intensities (F our ier or modulus cons traint). The estimate is projected
iterativ el y onto all the cons traints in sequential order until a solution has been f ound cor responding
to the intersection point of the cons traint sets. Due to the nonlinear and non-con v e x nature
of the problem coupled with noisy measurements, finding a solution can be challenging. The
single-shot e xposures used as input f or the CDI algor ithm in our e xper iment are c haracter ized b y
lo w SNR. Theref ore w e here combine con v entional CDI with the alter nating directions method
of multipliers (ADMM) [ 20 ]. W e adapt ADMM f or the CDI reconstruction procedure allo wing
f or additional penalty ter ms to be used.
2. Experiment
The e xper iments w ere per f or med at the Intense XUV Beamline at the Lund High-P o wer Laser
F acility , descr ibed in detail in [ 21 ] and with the relev ant par ts of the beamline depicted in Fig. 1 .
The XUV pulses w ere produced from HHG in argon, dr iv en b y an infrared (IR) Ti:sapphire
f emtosecond laser [ 22 , 23 ]. The v er tically polarized dr iving laser pulses had a central w a v elength
of 815 nm, a pulse duration of 45 f s, a pulse ener gy of 25 mJ and a repetition rate of 10 Hz. After
the Ar cell the IR and XUV pulses co-propag ate until they reac h a beam-separator (BS) consisting
of tw o parallel Si plates aligned at the Bre ws ter angle f or the IR beam and used to separate the
IR and XUV pulses in space. After reflecting off both Si plates both beams emerg e parallel to,
but slightl y lo w er than, the or iginal pulses with a theoretical transmission of 70 % and 0 % f or
the XUV and IR pulses, respectiv el y . The XUV pulses are steered and f ocused onto the sample
using tw o Sc/Si multila y er mir rors designed f or 32.5 e V (38.1 nm). The first mir ror (M1) is a flat
mir ror used at an incidence angle close to 45
°
and the second (M2) is a spher ical mir ror with
0.5 m f ocal length used close to nor mal incidence. Both mir rors are piezo-actuated to allo w f or
precise steering of the beam, and the remaining IR pulses are absorbed by a 200 nm Al filter
placed betw een M2 and the sample. The sample is placed on a three-axis s tag e controlled b y
three independent actuators allo wing f or the sample to be positioned within the f ocus which has a
diameter of
∼
100
µ
m (full width at half maximum). The diffraction data is measured with an
in-v acuum Andor CCD camera cooled to
−
40
°
with 2048
×
2048 pix els and 13.5
µ
m
×
13.5
µ
m
pix el size. In addition to the cooling w e used 2 × 2 binning of the CCD to impro v e the SNR.
The beam-separator (BS) and the flat multila y er mir ror (M1) reside on a breadboard which
can be rotated in or out of the beam path. T o obtain initial XUV spectra, the optics are rotated

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Fig. 1.
A top vie w sketc h of the e xper imental setup, in which XUV pulses are g enerated in
an Ar cell. The IR and XUV beam co-propag ate until the beam-separator (BS) after which
the IR is attenuated. Then a flat (M1) and a spherical (M2) multila y er mir rors steer and f ocus
the beam onto the sample. The optics are f astened to a breadboard whic h can be rotated out
of the w ay allo wing the beam to pass to the XUV spectrometer . The inset sho ws a side vie w
of the beam-separator .
out and the beam passed to a flat-field XUV spectrometer [ 21 ]. The optics are rotated back in to
acquire double-slit diffraction data. The double-slit is remo v ed and replaced with a puzzle-piece
sample. The double-slit and puzzle-piece samples w ere both fabricated with f ocused ion beam
milling of Si
3
N
4
coated with a 270 nm thick la y er of gold. The double-slit sample had 200 nm
wide slits with 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16
µ
m separations. The sample-detector distance w as 5 cm and
each individual single-shot diffraction pattern w as read out bef ore the ne xt pulse.
The ultraf ast pulses and XUV w av elengths pro vided b y the source are impor tant f or studying
sample dynamics on the nanoscale le v el. The XUV w av elengths pro vide an inherent resolution
impro v ement o v er visible light solely due to the short w a v elength; ho w ev er , mater ial absor ption in
this regime pla y s a more significant role. Con v entional microscope designs in the XUV typically
rel y on diffractiv e optics which can be difficult to align, restr ict sample size and introduce
aber rations into the sy stem. The beam-separator and multila y er mir rors can be rotated out of
the beam path allo wing the source spectr um and intensity to be optimized pr ior to imaging.
By a v oiding image f or ming optics, this sy stem increases the photon efficiency , pro vides easy
alignment and allo w s f or different sample en vironments while taking advantag e of the source
proper ties.
3. Spectrum and coherence
W e br iefly descr ibe the methods used to e xtract the spectr um and spatial coherence proper ties.
F or more comprehensiv e re vie w s see [ 24 – 26 ]. Due to the detector’s relativ ely long e xposure time
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is negligible and is theref ore neglected in the f ollo wing treatment. As a result, the beam will
be treated as se v eral independent fields each with partial spatial coherence. The cross-spectral
density can be wr itten as
W ( x 1 , x 2 , ω ) = ∫ R +
h U ( x 1 , ω 0 ) U ∗ ( x 2 , ω )i d ω 0 ( 1 )
and after making the appro ximation that the field consists of se v eral discrete wa v elengths
U ( x , ω ) ∼ Í j U j ( x ) δ ( ω − ω j ) it can be descr ibed as
W − ( x 1 , x 2 , ω ) = Õ
i j
h U j ( x 1 ) U ∗
i ( x 2 )i δ ( ω − ω i ) ( 2 )
bef ore the sample, where i , j indicate the har monic order , U denotes the electr ic field and is
considered as an er godic random field and
hi
indicates an ensemble or time a v erage. F or a Y oung’s
double slit, the sample transmission is compr ised of tw o rectangular openings t
(
x
) =
o
1 (
x
) +
o
2 (
x
)
.
After propag ation through the sample the cross-spectral density becomes
W ( x 1 , x 2 , ω ) = W − ( x 1 , x 2 , ω ) t ( x 1 ) t ∗ ( x 2 ) . ( 3 )
If the slits are sufficientl y thin, the cross-spectral density can be appro ximated as being sampled
onl y at the slit centers. In order to obtain an e xpression f or the intensity at the detector , W
(
x
1
, x
2
,
ω )
needs to be propag ated to the detector plane. Propag ation of W
(
x
1
, x
2
,
ω )
to the f ar -field is
calculated with a tw o-dimensional Fourier transf or m f or each spatial coordinate ( x
1
, x
2 ∈ R 2
).
The measured intensity is giv en b y
I ( y ) = ∫ ω
W ( y , y , ω ) ∝ Õ
i
S i [ | ˜
o 1 ( y ) | 2 + | ˜
o 2 ( y ) | 2 + µ ( i )
12 ˜
o 1 ( y ) ˜
o ∗
2 ( y ) + µ ∗( i )
12 ˜
o ∗
1 ( y ) ˜
o 2 ( y )] , ( 4 )
where
˜
o 1,2 (
y
)
denotes the f ar -field propagation of o
1,2 (
x
)
, S
i
are the spectral intensities,
µ 12
is
the comple x degree of coherence and y
∈ R 2
is a spatial coordinate in the detector plane. It
is readil y visible that this equation consists of an incoherent sum of se v eral par tially coherent
f ar -field diffraction patter ns. U pon taking the in v erse Fourier transf or m of Eq. (4) w e obtain
se v eral autocor relation (P atterson) functions f or each har monic.
In order to understand the autocorrelation function (or the in v erse Fourier transf or m of the
measured intensity) it is impor tant to kno w ho w the reconstruction pix el size at the sample plane
depends on the w av elength. This dependence will be used to e xtract the spectr um from the
double-slit diffraction patter ns. This relationship is der iv ed by comparing the e xpression f or
propag ating a continuous field with the discrete f ast F our ier transf or m. The pix el size in the
sample plane (
∆ s
i
) is related to the w av elength (
λ i
), sample-detector distance ( z ), the detector
pix el size ( ∆ d ) and the number of detector pix els along one direction ( N ) through the relation
∆ s
i = λ i z
∆ d N . ( 5 )
In discrete space with a fix ed pix el size, each w a v elength will giv e r ise to a lar g er or smaller
autocor relation imag e depending on the wa v elength. Using kno w ledge of the slit separation
(d) it is then possible to deter mine the contributions that each harmonic makes to the total
autocor relation function. The distance betw een the i
th
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used to deter mine the harmonic spectr um at the sample using
∆ s
i = d
n i
( 6 )
λ i =
∆ d Nd
n i z ( 7 )
where n
i
is the number of pix els betw een the center and i
th
peak in the autocor relation. The
spectral intensities are then deter mined from the peak heights. From these relations, the absolute
w av elengths and spectr um w as calculated. This approach is similar to the one used in [ 27 , 28 ].
The multi-har monic autocor relation f or a 16
µ
m slit separation is sho wn in Fig. 2 (a) where eac h
har monic is separated v er tically . Figure 2 (b) sho ws a v er tical lineout from the autocor relation f or
se v eral slit separations. It is apparent that the spectral resolution impro v es as the slit separation
increases and the contr ibutions from eac h har monic begin to separate f or distances abo v e 4 µ m.
Fig. 2.
Anal ysis of the autocor relation function from double-slit diffraction data. (a) The
autocor relation (in v erse F our ier transf or m of the diffraction intensity) magnitude from the
16
µ
m slit separation sho wing separate autocor relations from each harmonic. The highes t
intensities w ere suppressed f or presentation pur poses. The dashed line indicates the position
f or the lineouts in (b). (b) A utocor relation lineouts f or sev eral slit separations. The center
and conjug ate imag es aren’t sho wn, but w ould appear to the left of the plot.
T o confir m the accuracy of the method, the data sho wn in Fig. 2 is used to simulate the
diffraction patter ns. The comparison betw een data and e xtracted spectra are sho wn in Fig. 3 .
Diffraction from 2, 4, 8, and 16
µ
m slits are sho wn. The measured data (blue) from se v eral
double-slits are compared to the calculated diffraction (blac k) and appear to agree w ell.
A dditionall y , the spectr um is compared to that measured from an XUV flat-field spectrometer .
The effect of the multila y er mir rors is readily apparent. An anal ytic e xpression w as used to
calculate the beam-separator transmission while reflectivity measurements w ere used f or the
multila y er mir rors resulting in a calculated spectr um sho wn b y the red line in Fig. 4 . Lastl y , the
visibility in the double-slit diffraction data is used to deter mine the magnitude of the comple x
degree of coherence and is sho wn in the inset of Fig. 4 . As sho wn in pr ior e xper iments [ 27 ] the
high-spatial coherence from the IR beam appears to translate to the XUV w av efronts.

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Fig. 3.
The measured double-slit diffraction f or 2, 4, 8, and 16
µ
m separations cor responding
to (a), (b), (c) and (d) respectiv ely . The r ight insets sho w s closeups of the middle section
of the plot sho wing that the e xtracted spectral intensities and spatial coherence proper ties
agree w ell with the measured data. The left inset sho ws the 2D diffraction data from whic h
the lines w ere e xtracted. The spectrum could not be deter mined from the 2
µ
m data due to
the lac k of spectral resolution (a), so e xtracted values from the 8
µ
m slit w ere used f or the
compar ison.
Fig. 4.
The measured spectral intensities (data points) compared to the calculated (red
line) and spectr um measured from the XUV spectrometer . The spectrometer measures data
at a different position on the beamline. The difference in the spectr um can be accounted
f or through the multila yer mirror reflectivities which ha v e been taken into account in the
red cur v e. The energy uncertainties ar ise from uncer tainty in the measured double-slit-to-
detector distance. A plot of the av erage comple x deg ree of coherence magnitude is sho wn in
the inset.
After the spectr um has been determined it is used as input f or e xtracting the monochromatic
diffraction patter n. This is accomplished b y iterativ el y minimizing a cost function (J) defined as
J ( I , S i , λ i ) : = 



 Õ
i
S i ψ i { I } − I E 




2
L 2
+ β P ( I ) ( 8 )

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where I
E
is the e xper imental pol y chromatic intensity data, I is the monochromatic diffraction
patter n v ar iable, the residual is defined as R :
= Í
i
S i ψ i I − I E
with the scaling operator giv en b y
ψ i
I
(
x
)
:
= ( λ 0 / λ i ) 2
I
( λ 0
λ i
x
)
. The second ter m (
β
P
(
I
)
) can be additional penalty ter ms to increase
the L
1
or gradient (total variation) sparsity or others from compressed sensing. The Fréchet
der iv ativ e with respect to the unkno wn intensity giv en b y
∇ I
J
= Σ i S i ψ †
i
is used to deter mine the
pro ximal step f or the ADMM algor ithm [ 29 ]. ADMM is an iterativ e approach whic h sol v es the
optimization problem b y splitting it into smaller subproblems which are themsel v es easier to
sol v e. The ref erence wa v elength associated with the unkno wn intensity ,
λ 0
, can be chosen freel y .
Here, w e chose the 37th harmonic. This does not affect the resolution, but merely samples the
reconstruction at a finer scale. Using this approach eac h
ψ i
can be unique if the ph y sical model
requires. W e onl y require that the adjoint (
ψ †
i
) be calculable in order to deter mine
∇ I
J . This
added fle xibility ma y pla y an impor tant role in treating each harmonic with its o wn propagation
model [ 30 ]. The pol y chromatic and pseudo-monoc hromatic data are sho wn in Fig. 5 . The data
consists of diffraction from an open aper ture shaped as a puzzle piece with a characteristic size of
∼
5
µ
m
×
5
µ
m. A scanning electron microg raph of the puzzle piece is sho wn in the inset of Fig. 5 .
Fig. 5.
(a) The measured pol y chromatic and (b) e xtracted monochromatic diffraction
patter ns from a puzzle piece sample (inset) with a scalebar representing 4
µ
m length. The
highest intensity v alues are suppressed to sho w high-frequency data more clearl y . The
algor ithm e xtracted the highest energy harmonic accounting f or the apparent size difference
betw een the tw o imag es.
T o combat the lo w SNR, the diffraction data is con v olv ed with a Gaussian with standard
de viation of 0.75 pixels. T ypically , this w ould be a poor decision, but tw o f actors made this a
f av orable approach. The first reason is that it k eeps a simple signal processing pipeline. P enalty
ter ms could ha v e been introduced into the e xtraction algor ithm to smooth the result and reduce
the effect of the noise, but this w ould also introduce a constant whic h w ould need to be chosen
appropr iatel y . Second, due to sev eral har monics in the data, it is smoother than its monoc hromatic
diffraction patter n. As a result, the method noise introduced due to Gaussian filter ing is reduced
[ 31 ].
4. Coherent diffractive imaging
Once the pseudo-monochromatic diffraction pattern has been calculated standard phase retriev al
algor ithms can be used to reco v er the phase. W e implement a guided ER algor ithm similar to
[ 32 ] f or these reconstructions combined with shr inkwrap to deter mine the e xit sur f ace wa v e and
suppor t simultaneousl y . The approach used six g enerations with 20 independent tr ials each with
1000 iterations. In addition, w e implement ADMM using the Pro xImaL frame w ork [ 29 ]. This
allo w s f or g reater fle xibility and ability to incor porate additional penalty ter ms suc h as
k
u
k 1
( L
1
)

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or
k ∇
u
k 1
(total v ar iation (T V)). Due to the nonlinear nature of the CDI optimization problem it
is possible f or the iterate to get s tuck in local minima. T o pre v ent this, w e emplo y a basin-hopping
global optimization approach [ 33 , 34 ] f or each pro ximal step of ADMM. W e ha v e f ound that
this giv es v er y repeatable reconstructions, but with the disadvantag e that the algor ithm tak es
much long er to compute. The time is reduced b y optimizing only the pix els which are contained
in a bounding bo x around the suppor t. The reconstruction procedure takes about 1 min 20 sec
which is shortened b y ha ving a fix ed suppor t. In compar ison, the reconstructions based on the
ER algor ithm tak e slightly less than 5 min which could also be reduced if a fix ed suppor t w as
used. The computations w ere car r ied out using a standard computer with f our processors r unning
at about 3 GHz which allo w ed f or f our reconstr uctions to be calculated in parallel.
Figure 6 sho w s a compar ison betw een ER and ADMM with L
1
and TV penalty ter ms. The
comple x-v alued e xit sur f ace wa v e is sho wn within a single imag e b y mapping the amplitude and
phase into v alue and hue respectiv el y . All reconstr uctions sho w a phase ramp which is sho wn
more clear l y in Fig. 6 (a). Introducing additional penalty ter ms can help reduce recons tr uction
ar tif acts if a beamstop is used or if, as in this case, the SNR is lo w . There is no missing data regions
within our data which e xplains the similar ity betw een reconstructions. The suppor t is deter mined
b y using guided ER with the shr inkwrap method [ 35 ]. The L
1
and TV reconstr uction ha v e small
coefficients of 10
− 4
and 10
− 3
respectiv el y . The plots in Fig. 6 (a) sho w the amplitude and phase f or
the TV reconstr uction. It’s tempting to anal yze the shar p boundar y f or a resolution assessment,
but this can be simpl y a result of the shar p suppor t boundar y . Instead w e look at a knif e edg e cut
across an edg e of an inset where the suppor t is constant. U nf or tunatel y , the edg es across these
insets are not flat resulting in larg er 10 %–90 % distances. Using this approach, the resolution
is 3 pixels corresponding to 600 nm. The resolution here is constrained b y the lo w number of
detected photons. Ev en with the lo w SNR w e are able to reco v er single-shot reconstr uctions.
Figure 7 sho w s se v eral of these reconstructions which re v eal shot-to-shot wa v efront fluctuations
within the sample opening. Lo w er ing the SNR and coherence requirements allo w s f or a larg er
set of sources and datasets become viable f or single-shot imaging. At the moment; ho w ev er , w e
are still res tr icted to samples that ha v e w a v elength-independent transmission functions. Samples
with w av elength-dependent absor ption will introduce uncer tainty into the spectral intensities.
This uncer tainty , in the simplest situation, will result in a par tial reco v er y of the coherence in the
data. T o handle these situations, a generalized approac h will need to be dev eloped.
Fig. 6.
A compar ison betw een se v eral reconstruction techniques are sho wn. (a) A lineout
from (d) of the phase (dashed line) and intensity (solid line) f or the ADMM with TV
penalty ter m sho wn in (d). Se veral recons tr uctions of the pseudo-monochromatic data f or
compar ison betw een ER and ADMM with T V and L
1
penalty ter ms. The scale andbars
appl y to all three reconstr uction imag es. The magnitude and phase are mapped to intensity
(v alue) and hue respectiv el y . In this w a y the comple x-v alued images can be displa y ed within
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Fig. 7.
Se veral recons tr uctions sho wing the shot-to-shot wa v efront v ar iation o v er the area of
the puzzle piece sample. The magnitude and phase of of the comple x wa v efront are mapped
to intensity and hue respectiv ely . The scalebar applies to all the recons tr uctions.
5. Conc lusion
In conclusion, high-intensity HHG pulses w ere g enerated and used f or single-shot poly chromatic
CDI. A direct method based on the cross-spectral density w as descr ibed to reco v er the source
spectr um from double-slit diffraction data. This method relies on the w av elength dependence of
the sample-plane pix el size to separate the autocor relation functions from each har monic whic h
is then used to deter mine the field’s spectrum. The lo w SNR in the diffraction patter ns can be
compensated f or by Gaussian filtering the imag e pr ior to reco v er ing the pseudo-monoc hromatic
diffraction patter n. The reco v ered spectr um w as used to obtain a pseudo-monochromatic
diffraction patter n and recons tr uctions based on guided ER and ADMM tec hniques w ere
compared. The repeatability of ADMM w as impro v ed b y using a global optimization step
which helps to a v oid local minima. Finall y , single-shot diffraction patter ns w ere used to imag e a
puzzle-piece aper ture and sho w the shot-to-shot w a v efront fluctuations of the incident field.
Funding
S tiftelsen för S trategisk Forskning; European R esearch Council; Knut oc h Alice W allenbergs
S tiftelse; V etenskapsrådet.
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