X-ray diffuse scattering holography of a centrosymmetric sample

The hologram based on the measurement of anomalous x-ray diffuse scattering is presented for the first time. The experiment was carried out using a rubidium chloride single crystal and anomalous scattering from Rb atoms close to the rubidium K-absorption edge. Holographic oscillations of a few percent of a total detected signal were achieved by choosing a suitable pair of photon energies. The real-space images of nearest neighbors of rubidium atoms were obtained using the standard Helmholz-Kirchhoff reconstruction algorithm.