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Title: Design and performance of a soft X-ray interferometer for ultra-high resolution Fourier transform spectroscopy

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OSTI ID:135121

A Fourier Transform Soft X-ray spectrometer (FT-SX) has been designed and is under construction for the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a branch of beamline 9.3.2. The spectrometer is a novel soft x-ray interferometer designed for ultra-high resolution (theoretical resolving power E/{delta}E{approx}10{sup 6}) spectroscopy in the photon energy region of 60-120 eV. This instrument is expected to provide experimental results which sensitively test models of correlated electron processes in atomic molecular physics. The design criteria and consequent technical challenges posed by the short wavelengths of x-rays and desired resolving power are discussed. The fundamental and practical aspects of soft x-ray interferometry are also explored.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00098
OSTI ID:
135121
Report Number(s):
LBL-37711; CONF-950859-4; ON: DE96002551; TRN: US0303513
Resource Relation:
Conference: 11. international conference on vacuum ultraviolet radiation physics, Tokyo (JP), 08/27/1995--09/01/1995; Other Information: Supercedes report DE96002551; PBD: Aug 1995; Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, Vol. 80, pp. 309-331,May 1996; PBD: 1 Aug 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English