Holographic rugate structures for x-ray optics applications

Technical Report · Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6647677

A new approach to x-ray optics has been proposed by Physical Optics Corporation (POC) based on single-step holographic fabrication of highly-efficient x-ray diffraction elements. These elements include holographic gratings and mirrors, slanted (non-Snellian) mirrors, uniform and chirped gratings, holographic optical elements (HOEs), lenses and beam splitters, all of which have been investigated in our Phase 1 research program. They have successfully demonstrated the proof of concept of POC's holographic techniques. In our approach, the holographic recording of the interference patterns produced by two (or more) coherent electromagnetic waves is used to create the desired transmission and reflection Bragg holographic structures which can perform various nonconventional operations in the XUV region (soft-x-ray and EUV, from 1 to 100 nm). The proposed XUV high-efficiency holographic structures can be also be applied to more conventional operations such as laser mirroring, collimating, focusing and wavelength dispersion with extremely high resolving power (>10,000,000). Their multi-functional capability makes them competitive to a majority of conventional XUV optical elements including absorptive multi-layers, Fresnel zone-plates, grazing-optics imaging mirrors (and collimators), multi-layer Fabry-Perot resonators, uniform and nonuniform surface gratings and binary optical elements.

• Research Organization: Physical Optics Corp., Torrance, CA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/ER
• DOE Contract Number: FG03-86ER13600
• OSTI ID: 6647677
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/13600-T3; ON: DE90017220
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
GRATINGS
FABRICATION
MIRRORS
OPTICAL SYSTEMS
TESTING
HOLOGRAPHY
PROGRESS REPORT
REFLECTIVITY
X RADIATION
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
X-RAY LASERS
COHERENT SCATTERING
DIFFRACTION
DOCUMENT TYPES
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
IONIZING RADIATIONS
LASERS
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
RADIATIONS
SCATTERING
SURFACE PROPERTIES
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