Quantitative diffraction imaging using attosecond pulses

Abstract

We have proposed and developed a method to utilize attosecond pulses in diffraction imaging techniques applied to complex samples. In this study, the effects of the broadband properties of the wavefield owing to attosecond pulses are considered in the reconstruction of images through the decomposition of the broad spectrum into multi-spectral components. This method successfully reconstructs the multi-spectral information of complex samples, probes, and spectral bandwidths using broadband diffraction intensities generated from computational scanning experiments. The results obtained in this research open the opportunities to perform quantitative ultrafast imaging using the attosecond pulses.