Efficiency of an elliptically shaped x-ray mirror

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 34, 2004, Pages 6270-6277

  Bukreeva, Inna N ^a,c   Dabagov, Sultan B ^b   Lagomarsino, Stefano ^a,c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^c LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADIOGRAPHY; RAY TRACING;

ANGULAR ACCEPTANCE; MAGNIFICATION; OPTIMAL ECCENTRICITY; OPTIMAL PARAMETERS;

X RAY OPTICS;

EID: 10644266863     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.006270     Document Type: Article

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