High-energy x-ray optics with silicon saw-tooth refractive lenses.
Silicon saw-tooth refractive lenses have been in successful use for vertical focusing and collimation of high-energy X-rays (50-100 keV) at the 1-ID undulator beamline of the Advanced Photon Source. In addition to presenting an effectively parabolic thickness profile, as required for aberration-free refractive optics, these devices allow high transmission and continuous tunability in photon energy and focal length. Furthermore, the use of a single-crystal material (i.e. Si) minimizes small-angle scattering background. The focusing performance of such saw-tooth lenses, used in conjunction with the 1-ID beamline's bent double-Laue monochromator, is presented for both short ({approx}1:0.02) and long ({approx}1:0.6) focal-length geometries, giving line-foci in the 2 {micro}m-25 {micro}m width range with 81 keV X-rays. In addition, a compound focusing scheme was tested whereby the radiation intercepted by a distant short-focal-length lens is increased by having it receive a collimated beam from a nearer (upstream) lens. The collimation capabilities of Si saw-tooth lenses are also exploited to deliver enhanced throughput of a subsequently placed small-angular-acceptance high-energy-resolution post-monochromator in the 50-80 keV range. The successful use of such lenses in all these configurations establishes an important detail, that the pre-monochromator, despite being comprised of vertically reflecting bent Laue geometry crystals, can be brilliance-preserving to a very high degree.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research; Swedish Research Council (SRC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 914913
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/XSD/JA-58329; JSYRES; TRN: US0804843
- Journal Information:
- J. Synchrotron Radiat., Vol. 14, Issue 2007; ISSN 0909-0495
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- ENGLISH
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