Towards brilliant, compact x-ray sources: a new x-ray photonic device

Brian Scherer; Sudeep Mandal; Joshua Salisbury; Peter Edic; Forrest Hopkins; Susanne M. Lee

doi:10.1117/12.2266793

1 May 2017 Towards brilliant, compact x-ray sources: a new x-ray photonic device

Brian Scherer, Sudeep Mandal, Joshua Salisbury, Peter Edic, Forrest Hopkins, Susanne M. Lee

Proceedings Volume 10187, Anomaly Detection and Imaging with X-Rays (ADIX) II; 101870G (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2266793
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2017, Anaheim, CA, United States

Abstract

General Electric has designed an innovative x-ray photonic device that concentrates a polychromatic beam of diverging x-rays into a less divergent, parallel, or focused x-ray beam. The device consists of multiple, thin film multilayer stacks. X-rays incident on a given multilayer stack propagate within a high refractive index transmission layer while undergoing multiple total internal reflections from a novel, engineered multilayer containing materials of lower refractive index. Development of this device could lead to order-of-magnitude flux density increases, over a large broadband energy range from below 20 keV to above 300 keV. In this paper, we give an overview of the device and present GE’s progress towards fabricating prototype devices.

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Brian Scherer, Sudeep Mandal, Joshua Salisbury, Peter Edic, Forrest Hopkins, and Susanne M. Lee "Towards brilliant, compact x-ray sources: a new x-ray photonic device", Proc. SPIE 10187, Anomaly Detection and Imaging with X-Rays (ADIX) II, 101870G (1 May 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2266793

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