Grazing-incidence-designs for wide-field x-ray imaging applications

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 136-144

  Harvey, James E ^a   Krywonos, Andrey ^a   Thompson, Patrick L ^a   Saha, Timo T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; IMAGE SENSORS; MIRRORS; TELESCOPES; X RAYS;

ASTIGMATISM;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0037766467     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.000136     Document Type: Article

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