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Measurement of X-ray Beam Coherence along Multiple Directions Using 2-D Checkerboard Phase Grating
Published on: October 11, 2016
Investigation of the effects of partial coherence on exit wave reconstruction
L J Allen1, W McBride, N L O'Leary
1School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. lja@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Abstract:
In a recent work we presented an iterative wave function reconstruction (IWFR) method that reconstructs a wave function from measurements of its amplitude taken as it propagates in free space (a focal series of images). Although the ideal environment for application of the IWFR method is in a coherent imaging system, it has been developed so that it can be applied in a partially coherent imaging system, in particular for a high-resolution transmission electron microscope using a field-emission gun. In this paper we investigate the effects of partial coherence on the accuracy of results obtained using the IWFR method. We then show how results obtained under such conditions can be improved by estimating and subtracting components from the amplitude measurements of the wave function that derive from incoherence in the electron beam.
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