Front-coupling of a prefocused x-ray beam into a monomodal planar waveguide

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1907-1909

  Fuhse, Christian ^a   Jarre, Ansgar ^a   Ollinger, Christoph ^a   Seeger, Jens ^a   Salditt, Tim ^a   Tucoulou, Remi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; PHOTONS; RADIATION EFFECTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; X RAYS;

RADIATION TRANSMISSION; RESONANT BEAM COUPLER (RBC); WAVEGUIDE CLADDING; X-RAY WAVEGUIDES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 5444240785     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1791736     Document Type: Article

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