Hard-X-ray imaging optics based on four aspherical mirrors with 50 nm resolution

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 10310-10319

  Matsuyama, Satoshi ^a   Kidani, Naotaka ^a   Mimura, Hidekazu ^b   Sano, Yasuhisa ^a   Kohmura, Yoshiki ^c   Tamasaku, Kenji ^c   Yabashi, Makina ^c   Ishikawa, Tetsuya ^c   Yamauchi, Kazuto ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

ASPHERICAL MIRRORS; DEMAGNIFICATION; DIFFRACTION-LIMITED RESOLUTION; ELLIPTICAL MIRRORS; FIELD OF VIEWS; FULL-FIELD; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYPERBOLIC MIRRORS; IMAGING OPTICS; KIRKPATRICK-BAEZ; NM RESOLUTION; SPRING-8; VERTICAL DIRECTION; X-RAY ENERGIES;

IMAGE RESOLUTION;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIOGRAPHY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LENSES; MICROSCOPY; RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84861116263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.010310     Document Type: Article

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