High-aspect-ratio line focus for an x-ray laser by a deformable mirror

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 847-852

  Yoon, Geun Young ^a   Jitsuno, Takahisa ^a   Kato, Yoshiaki ^a   Nakatsuka, Masahiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aberration compensation; Deformable mirror; Line focus; Wave front control; X ray laser

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ASPECT RATIO; DEFORMATION; FOCUSING; INTERFEROMETERS; LENSES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MIRRORS; OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; SURFACES; WAVEFRONTS;

ABCD MATRIX METHOD; DEFORMABLE MIRROR; LINE FOCUS; WAVEFRONT CONTROL;

X RAY LASERS;

EID: 0031078586     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000847     Document Type: Article

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