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This is a tutorial paper on the properties of partially coherent hard x-ray beams and their use in the structural analysis of condensed matter. The role of synchrotron radiation in the generation of coherent x-ray beams is highlighted and the requirements ...
The x-ray focusing properties of linear Fresnel zone plates have been derived by solving the Helmholtz equation for the field propagating through the zones. We consider the imaging of a point object into the first diffraction order of a volume zone plate h ...
The optical properties of plano-convex refractive microlenses with low Fresnel Number (typically FN < 10) are investigated. It turns out that diffraction effects at the lens aperture limit the range of the effective focal length. The upper limit of the foc ...
A simple model is proposed in order to evaluate the complex amplitude point spread function (intensity and phase) of a microscope objective. The model is based on the Fresnel diffraction theory and takes also into account the possible optical aberrations. ...
We have experimentally demonstrated that planar neutron waveguides can be used as resonant beam couplers to efficiently produce a coherent neutron line source with cross sections in the submicrometer range. The Fraunhofer far-field diffraction pattern of t ...
Design and simulation of two-dimensional diffractive optical elements are often limited by the amount of data required to represent the element in the computer's memory. We present a technique based on a geometrical description of the element, which requir ...
Off-axis holograms recorded with a CCD camera are numerically reconstructed with a calculation of scalar diffraction in the Fresnel approximation. We show that the zero order of diffraction and the twin image can be digitally eliminated by means of filteri ...
Tests performed in different regimes reveal the interplay of two edge-enhancement mechanisms in radiological images taken with coherent synchrotron light. The relative weight of the two mechanisms, related to refraction and to Fresnel edge diffraction, can ...
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We present a digital method for holographic microscopy involving a CCD camera as a recording device. Off-axis holograms recorded with a magnified image of microscopic objects are numerically reconstructed in amplitude and phase by calculation of scalar dif ...
1999
This thesis presents a new method for the numerical reconstruction of digital holograms recorded in the off-axis configuration using a CCD camera. The propagation of the reconstructed wave front, from the hologram plane to an observation plane, is achieved ...
