A very compact polarizer for an X-ray polarimeter calibration

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6686, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Muleri, Fabio ^a,b   Sofiitta, Paolo ^a   Bellazzini, Ronaldo ^c   Brez, Alessandro ^c   Costa, Enrico ^a   Fabiani, Sergio ^a   Frutti, Massimo ^a   Minuti, Massimo ^c   Negri, Maria Barbara ^d   Pascale, Piermarco ^a   Rubini, Alda ^a   Sindoni, Giuseppe ^a   Spandre, Gloria ^c  

^a INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^d ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bragg diffraction; X ray polarized source

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DIFFRACTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; X RAY OPTICS; X RAY TUBES;

BRAGG DIFFRACTION; X-RAY POLARIZED SOURCE; X-RAY TUBE VOLTAGE;

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 42249089724     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.734647     Document Type: Conference Paper

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