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Extended range X-ray telescope: X-ray microscope design. Final Report, 29 Jan. - 28 Jun. 1982

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6175865
A glancing incidence X-ray microscope using a confocal hyperboloid ellipsoid mirror was designed to couple optically a Wolter 1 telescope to a CCD focal plane detector. Both the RMS spot size and the point spread function calculations were used to evaluate the resolution, defocusing, and vignetting effects of the system for microscope focal lengths of 1, 1.5, and 2 meters and for magnifications varying from 2 to 10x. For the specific application with the S-056 telescope, a 2 meter, 8x microscope with a fabrication ratio of the microscope mirror length to the inner diameter at hyperboloid ellipsoid intersection of 2.5 was designed to be used with a thinned, back illuminated CCD detector array with 320 by 512, 30 micron pixels.
Research Organization:
Alabama Univ., Birmingham (USA)
OSTI ID:
6175865
Report Number(s):
N-8232208; NASA-CR-162072
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English