Invention:
This technology introduces additional novel components to the conventional optical gating technique and results in electron pulses of less than 20 femtoseconds and even into the attosecond realm. This provides improved temporal resolution for imaging done by electron microscopy and diffraction imaging.
Background:
Traditional electron microscopes are limited in their temporal resolution. The current state of the art has only achieved 200 femtosecond electron pulse widths. Using faster optical pulses to gate the electron pulses has been limited by the limitations on the optical pulse widths to drive the gating.
Applications:
- Molecular mechanisms of disease
- Observation of individual viruses and macromolecular complexes
Advantages:
- Improves temporal resolution
- Capable of exploring the ultrafast dynamics of matter
- Improves temporal and spectral dispersion compensation control and intensity profile inversion
Status: issued U.S. Patent #10,658,148
