Efficient lensing element for x-rays. [Blazed Fresnel Phase Plate]
Abstract
An efficient x-ray lens with an effective speed of order less than approximately f/50 for lambda greater than approximately 10 A x-rays is described. Fabrication of this lensing element appears feasible using existing microfabrication technology. Diffraction and refraction are coupled in a single element to achieve efficient x-ray concentration into a single order focal spot. Diffraction is used to produce efficient ray bending (without absorption) while refraction is used only to provide appropriate phase adjustment among the various diffraction orders to insure what is essentially a single order output. The mechanism for ray bending (diffraction) is decoupled from the absorption mechanism. Refraction is used only to achieve small shifts in phase so that the associated attenuation need not be prohibitive. The x-ray lens might be described as a Blazed Fresnel Phase Plate (BFPP) with a spatially distributed phase shift within each Fresnel zone. The spatial distribution of the phase shifts is chosen to concentrate essentially all of the unabsorbed energy into a single focal spot. The BFPP transforms the incident plane wave into a converging spherical wave having an amplitude modulation which is periodic in r/sup 2/. As a result of the periodic amplitude modulation, the BFPP will diffract energymore »
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- California Univ., Livermore (USA). Lawrence Livermore Lab.
- OSTI Identifier:
- 5228445
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-79966; CONF-770821-4
TRN: 78-006150
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: EMSA meeting, Boston, MA, USA, Aug 1977
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; FRESNEL LENS; DESIGN; X-RAY EQUIPMENT; BEAM OPTICS; COLLIMATORS; DIFFRACTION; FOCUSING; LASERS; REFRACTION; COHERENT SCATTERING; LENSES; SCATTERING; 440300* - Miscellaneous Instruments- (-1989)
Citation Formats
Ceglio, N M, and Smith, H I. Efficient lensing element for x-rays. [Blazed Fresnel Phase Plate]. United States: N. p., 1977.
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abstractNote = {An efficient x-ray lens with an effective speed of order less than approximately f/50 for lambda greater than approximately 10 A x-rays is described. Fabrication of this lensing element appears feasible using existing microfabrication technology. Diffraction and refraction are coupled in a single element to achieve efficient x-ray concentration into a single order focal spot. Diffraction is used to produce efficient ray bending (without absorption) while refraction is used only to provide appropriate phase adjustment among the various diffraction orders to insure what is essentially a single order output. The mechanism for ray bending (diffraction) is decoupled from the absorption mechanism. Refraction is used only to achieve small shifts in phase so that the associated attenuation need not be prohibitive. The x-ray lens might be described as a Blazed Fresnel Phase Plate (BFPP) with a spatially distributed phase shift within each Fresnel zone. The spatial distribution of the phase shifts is chosen to concentrate essentially all of the unabsorbed energy into a single focal spot. The BFPP transforms the incident plane wave into a converging spherical wave having an amplitude modulation which is periodic in r/sup 2/. As a result of the periodic amplitude modulation, the BFPP will diffract energy into foci other than the first order real focus. In cases of small absorption such effects are negligible and practically all the unabsorbed energy is directed into the first order real focus.},
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