Developing low-voltage electron microscopes has been a general trend due to high imaging contrast and low radiation damage. Recently, atom-resolved transmission electron microscopes with voltages as low as 15-40 kV have been demonstrated. However, achieving atomic resolution at voltages lower than 10 kV is extremely difficult. An alternative approach to obtaining high resolution images is coherent diffraction imaging (CDI). A low-voltage coherent electron microscope has been being developed to fulfill oversampling requirement of CDI and adjust beam energies. In this work, we analyzed configurations and operating conditions of optical columns of electron sources built from a nano-emitter. An optimal geometry was obtained and we will use the geometry to manufacture an optical column for our low-voltage coherent electron microscope.