Ten years of x-ray waveguides: past, present, and future

A. Cedola; S. Lagomarsino; D. Pelliccia; F. Scarinci; I. Bukreeva

doi:10.1117/12.640102

7 December 2006 Ten years of x-ray waveguides: past, present and future

A. Cedola, S. Lagomarsino, D. Pelliccia, F. Scarinci, I. Bukreeva

Proceedings Volume 5974, International Conference on Charged and Neutral Particles Channeling Phenomena; 597414 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.640102
Event: International Conference on Charged and Neutral Particles Channeling Phenomena, 2004, Rome, Italy

Abstract

The idea of an X-ray waveguide has its origin in 1974 from a paper of Spiller and Segmuller¹, but only then years ago^2-5 it has been demonstrated that a submicrometer X-ray beam could be produced by the waveguides. From the first experiments up to now the efficiency has been improved by three orders of magnitude⁶, and a nanometer beam confined in two directions has been also produced⁷. Recently, as it will be shown in this paper, the possibility to use waveguides with laboratory sources has been also demonstrated. The unique characteristics of the beam produced by the waveguides (nanometer beam size, high degree of coherence, well defined beam profile, etc.) make it appealing for several applications in microimaging, microdiffraction, etc. In this work the principles of X-ray waveguides together with the view of the present activity and applications of this optics will be presented.

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A. Cedola, S. Lagomarsino, D. Pelliccia, F. Scarinci, and I. Bukreeva "Ten years of x-ray waveguides: past, present and future", Proc. SPIE 5974, International Conference on Charged and Neutral Particles Channeling Phenomena, 597414 (7 December 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.640102

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