Skylab 3600 groove/mm replica grating with a scandium–silicon multilayer coating and high normal-incidence efficiency at 38-nm wavelength

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1846-1851

  Seely, John F ^a   Uspenskii, Yu A ^b   Pershin, Yu P ^c   Kondratenko, V V ^c   Vinogradov, A V ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; HELIOGRAPHS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MULTILAYERS; SILICON WAFERS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

MULTILAYER COATINGS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0036543155     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.001846     Document Type: Article

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