Off-plane grating performance for Constellation-X

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5488, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 302-312

  Osterman, Steve ^a   McEntaffer, Randall L ^a   Cash, Webster ^a   Shipley, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Holographic grating; Off plane mount

Indexed keywords

GRAZING INCIDENCE; HOLOGRAPHIC GRATING; IN-PLANE MOUNTS; OFF-PLANE MOUNT;

CALORIMETERS; HOLOGRAPHY; LIGHT REFLECTION; LITHOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; TELESCOPES; X RAY ANALYSIS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 10044287366     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551787     Document Type: Conference Paper

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