High efficiency, high quality x-ray optic based on ellipsoidally bent highly oriented pyrolytic graphite crystal for ultrafast x-ray diffraction experiments

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 5069-5075

  Uschmann, I ^a   Nothelle, U ^a   Forster E ^a   Arkadiev, V ^b   Langhoff, N ^b   Antonov, A ^c   Grigorieva, I ^c   Steinkopf, R ^d   Gebhardt, A ^d  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Institut fur Geratebau GmbH   (Germany)

^c Optigraph Corporation   (Russian Federation)

^d FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; PHOTONS; PYROLYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY OPTICS; X RAYS;

PHOTON ENERGY; PYROLYTIC GRAPHITE CRYSTALS; ROCKING CURVE WIDTH; TIME-RESOLVED X-RAY MEASUREMENT;

GRAPHITE;

EID: 25444458870     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.005069     Document Type: Article

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