Automatic alignment of a Kirkpatrick-Baez active optic by use of a soft-x-ray Hartmann wavefront sensor.
We present what we believe to be the first automatic alignment of a synchrotron beamline by the Hartmann technique. Experiments were performed, in the soft-x-ray range (E=3 keV, lambda=0.414 nm), by using a four-actuator Kirkpatrick-Baez (KB) active optic. A system imaging the KB focal spot and a soft-x-ray Hartmann wavefront sensor were used alternatively to control the KB optic. The beam corrected with the help of the imaging system was used to calibrate the wavefront sensor. With both closed loops, we focused the beam into a 6.8 microm x 9 microm FWHM focal spot.
Mercère
Pascal
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Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers-Saint-Aubin, Gif sur Yvette, France.
Idir
Mourad
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Moreno
Thierry
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Cauchon
Gilles
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Dovillaire
Guillaume
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Levecq
Xavier
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Couvet
Laurent
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Bucourt
Samuel
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Zeitoun
Philippe
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