Soft X-ray optics /

This text describes optics mainly in the 10 to 500 angstrom wavelength region. These wavelengths are 50 to 100 times shorter than those for visible light and 50 to 100 times longer than the wavelengths of medical x rays or x-ray diffraction from natural crystals. There have been substantial advances...

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Main Author: Spiller, Eberhard
Corporate Author: Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bellingham, Wash. (1000 20th St. Bellingham WA 98225-6705 USA) : SPIE, [1994]
Series:SPIE monograph ; PM15.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This text describes optics mainly in the 10 to 500 angstrom wavelength region. These wavelengths are 50 to 100 times shorter than those for visible light and 50 to 100 times longer than the wavelengths of medical x rays or x-ray diffraction from natural crystals. There have been substantial advances during the last 20 years, which one can see as an extension of optical technology to shorter wavelengths or as an extension of x-ray diffraction to longer wavelengths. Artificial diffracting structures like zone plates and multilayer mirrors are replacing the natural crystals of x-ray diffraction. Some of these structures can now be fabricated to have diffraction-limited resolution. The new possibilities are described in a simple, tutorial way.
Item Description:"SPIE digital library."
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 278 pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print version.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780819481238 (electronic)
DOI:10.1117/3.176482
Access:Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.