Highly efficient blazed grating with multilayer coating for tender X-ray energies

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作者
Senf, F. [1 ]
Bijkerk, F. [2 ]
Eggenstein, F. [1 ]
Gwalt, G. [1 ]
Huang, Q. [3 ]
Kruijs, R. [2 ]
Kutz, O. [4 ]
Lemke, S. [4 ]
Louis, E. [2 ]
Mertin, M. [1 ]
Packe, I. [1 ]
Rudolph, I. [1 ]
Schaefers, F. [1 ]
Siewert, F. [1 ]
Sokolov, A. [1 ]
Sturm, J. M. [2 ]
Waberski, Ch. [4 ]
Wang, Z. [3 ]
Wolf, J. [4 ]
Zeschke, T. [1 ]
Erko, A. [1 ]
机构
[1] HZB, Inst Nanometer Opt & Technol, Albert Einstein Str 15, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
[2] Univ Twente, XUV Opt Grp, MESA Inst Nanotechnol, NL-7522 ND Enschede, Netherlands
[3] Tongji Univ, Sch Phys Sci & Engn, Key Lab Adv Microstruct Mat MOE, Inst Precis Opt Engn, Shanghai 200092, Peoples R China
[4] HZB, Precis Gratings Dept, Albert Einstein Str 15, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
来源
OPTICS EXPRESS | 2016年 / 24卷 / 12期
关键词
DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY; MONOCHROMATORS; ENHANCEMENT; FILMS;
D O I
10.1364/OE.24.013220
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
For photon energies of 1 - 5 keV, blazed gratings with multilayer coating are ideally suited for the suppression of stray and higher orders light in grating monochromators. We developed and characterized a blazed 2000 lines/mm grating coated with a 20 period Cr/C- multilayer. The multilayer d-spacing of 7.3 nm has been adapted to the line distance of 500 nm and the blaze angle of 0.84 degrees in order to provide highest efficiency in the photon energy range between 1.5 keV and 3 keV. Efficiency of the multilayer grating as well as the reflectance of a witness multilayer which were coated simultaneously have been measured. An efficiency of 35% was measured at 2 keV while a maximum efficiency of 55% was achieved at 4 keV. In addition, a strong suppression of higher orders was observed which makes blazed multilayer gratings a favorable dispersing element also for the low X-ray energy range. (C)2016 Optical Society of America
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页码:13220 / 13230
页数:11
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