Full-field microscope with twin Wolter mirrors for soft X-ray free-electron lasers

Opt Express. 2019 Nov 11;27(23):33889-33897. doi: 10.1364/OE.27.033889.

Abstract

We developed a full-field microscope with twin Wolter mirrors for soft X-ray free-electron lasers. The Wolter mirrors for a condenser and an objective were fabricated using an electroforming process with a precisely figured master mandrel. In the imaging system constructed at SACLA BL1, sub-micrometer spatial resolution was achieved at wavelengths of 10.3 and 3.4 nm. Single-shot bright-field images were acquired with a maximum illumination intensity of 7×1014 W/cm2.