Equal–curvature grazing-incidence x–ray telescopes

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 4599-4605

  Saha, Timo T ^a   Zhang, William ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; IMAGE QUALITY; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; X RAY APPARATUS;

X RAY TELESCOPES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0041379849     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.004599     Document Type: Article

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