Measurements of metric nonlinearities of mcp based lobster-eye x-ray telescope optics by moire interferometry

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3356, Issue , 1998, Pages 866-875

  Tremsin, A S ^a   Siegmund, O H W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lobster eye telescope; Microchannel plates; X ray focusing optics

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MISALIGNMENT; ANGULAR RESOLUTION; FOCUSING OPTICS; MEASUREMENTS OF; MICRO CHANNEL PLATE; MOIRE INTERFEROMETRY; X RAY TELESCOPE; X-RAY FOCUSING OPTICS;

ALIGNMENT; FOCUSING; MOIRE FRINGES; SHELLFISH; SPACE TELESCOPES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; X RAYS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; X RAY SCREENS;

IMAGE STORAGE TUBES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

LOBSTER-EYE TELESCOPES; MICROCHANNEL PLATES (MCP); X RAY TELESCOPES;

EID: 0032295965     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.324442     Document Type: Conference Paper

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