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A “water window” tomography based on a laser-plasma double-stream gas-puff target soft X-ray source

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A desktop laser-plasma double-stream gas-puff target soft X-ray (SXR) source, operating in the so-called “water window” spectral range (λ = 2.3–4.4 nm). was successfully employed to acquire 3D tomographic images in transmission mode, using a Fresnel zone-plate microscope. The microscope, operating at the He-like nitrogen spectral line, 2.88-nm wavelength, allows acquiring 3D SXR volumetric reconstructions with a resolution of a few microns. The development of a compact system offers the possibility to obtain 3D reconstructed images in relatively short time and in a laboratory environment, without the involvement of large “photon facilities”, such as synchrotrons or free electron lasers, however, with the modest volume resolution at this point. The possibility to obtain three-dimensional images in the SXR wavelength range using a compact, laser-plasma based system may be useful for material and life sciences, where it is required to visualize small features of the samples in 3D that are not visible with a single 2D image. Details about the equipment and the setup constructions as well as some imaged samples will be presented and discussed.

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This work was supported by the Polish National Science Centre, Opus programmes, Grant agreement number UMO-2015/17/B/ST7/03718, UMO-2015/19/B/ST3/00435, the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program Laserlab-Europe IV, Grant number 654148 and by the Grant Agency for the Czech Republic, project GACR N. 18-07619S.

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  1. Institute of Optoelectronics, Military University of Technology, 00-908, Warsaw, Poland

    P. W. Wachulak, A. Bartnik, J. Kostecki & H. Fiedorowicz

  2. Nuclear Physics Institute, AS CR, 25 068, Řež, Czech Republic

    A. Torrisi

  3. Faculty of Mechatronics, Warsaw University of Technology, 02-525, Warsaw, Poland

    W. Krauze

  4. Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, 98166, Messina, Italy

    M. Maisano & A. M. Sciortino

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Wachulak, P.W., Torrisi, A., Krauze, W. et al. A “water window” tomography based on a laser-plasma double-stream gas-puff target soft X-ray source. Appl. Phys. B 125, 70 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-019-7183-2

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