Design and imaging performance of achromatic diffractive-refractive x-ray and gamma-ray Fresnel lenses

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 25, 2004, Pages 4845-4853

  Skinner, Gerald K ^a  

^a IRAP   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FUEL CONSUMPTION; GAMMA RAYS; LITHOGRAPHY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPACECRAFT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TELESCOPES;

ACHROMATIC DIFFRACTION; ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES; FRESNEL LENSES;

LENSES;

EID: 4544267380     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.004845     Document Type: Article

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