Abstract
Modern subtractive and additive manufacturing techniques present new avenues for X-ray optics with complex shapes and patterns. Refractive phase plates acting as glasses for X-ray optics have been fabricated, and spherical aberration in refractive X-ray lenses made from beryllium has been successfully corrected. A diamond phase plate made by femtosecond laser ablation was found to improve the Strehl ratio of a lens stack with a numerical aperture (NA) of 0.88 × 10-3 at 8.2 keV from 0.1 to 0.7. A polymer phase plate made by additive printing achieved an increase in the Strehl ratio of a lens stack at 35 keV with NA of 0.18 × 10-3 from 0.15 to 0.89, demonstrating diffraction-limited nanofocusing at high X-ray energies.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1121-1130 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Journal of Synchrotron Radiation |
Volume | 27 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 Sept 1 |
Externally published | Yes |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics
Free keywords
- aberration correction
- phase plate
- ptychography
- refractive X-ray optics