Kirkpatrick-Baez x-ray-microscope optimization for inertial-confinement-fusion applications

Technical Report · Sun May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1983

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5768737· OSTI ID:5768737

Price, R H; Priedhorsky, W C

Analytic approximations have been used to optimize single-channel and four-channel Kirkpatrick-Baez (K-B) x-ray microscopes in three ways: (I) for best effective solid angle at best resolution, (II) for best effective solid angle at a given resolution worse than the best; and (III) for best effective solid angle at a specified breadth of field. All optimizations are also made consistent with clean channel response, to ensure that any high-energy second peak will be small compared with the primary channel response. This is achieved at a sacrifice of effective solid angle. We describe a cross-talk aberration not previously recognized in K-B x-ray microscopes. The analytic approximations presented in this paper, which desribe the optical and constructional parameter of optimized K-B x-ray microscopes, are intended to allow scaling and localization in parameter space from which detailed numerical calculations can be used to fine-tune a microscope design.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 5768737
• Report Number(s): UCID-19831; ON: DE83014990; TRN: 83-019473
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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