Rigorous efficiency calculations for blazed gratings working in in- and off-plane mountings in the 5-50-Å wavelengths range

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5168, Issue , 2004, Pages 260-270

  Goray, Leonid I ^a  

^a Intl Intellectual Group Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Conical mounting; Diffraction grating; Integral method; Rigorous efficiency calculations; X ray spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADIATION DETECTORS; SILICON WAFERS; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

CONICAL MOUNTING; INTEGRAL METHOD; RIGOROUS EFFICIENCY CALCULATIONS;

X RAY OPTICS;

EID: 1842790083     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.505679     Document Type: Conference Paper

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