Large-distance refocusing of a submicrometre beam from an X-ray waveguide.
Among the several available X-ray optics for synchrotron radiation producing micrometre and submicrometre beams with high intensity, the X-ray waveguide (WG) can provide the smallest hard X-ray beam in one direction. A drawback of this optics is that, owing to the divergence at the exit, a nanometre-sized spot on the sample can only be obtained if this is within a few micrometres of the WG exit. Another limitation is that in planar WGs the beam is compressed in only one direction. Here, using a dynamically bent elliptical Si/Pt mirror, the guided X-ray beam has been refocused at approximately 1 m from the waveguide exit. The large working distance between the device and the submicrometre focus leaves some space for sample environment (vacuum chamber, furnace, cryostat, magnets, high-pressure device etc.) and allows cross-coupled geometries with two WGs for efficient compression in two directions.
Lagomarsino
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Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (IFN), CNR, V. Cineto Romano 42, 00156 Roma, Italy. stefano.lagomarsino@ifn.cnr.it
Bukreeva
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Mocella
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Surpi
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Bigault
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Cedola
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D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007909:Lenses; D017356:Synchrotrons / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods