Simple x-ray focusing mirror using float glass

Zhijian Yin; Lonny E. Berman; Steve B. Dierker; Eric Dufresne; D. Peter Siddons

doi:10.1117/12.259862

22 November 1996 Simple x-ray focusing mirror using float glass

Zhijian Yin, Lonny E. Berman, Steve B. Dierker, Eric Dufresne, D. Peter Siddons

Proceedings Volume 2856, Optics for High-Brightness Synchrotron Radiation Beamlines II; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.259862
Event: SPIE's 1996 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1996, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

In our recent x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (speckle) experiments at NSLS, one of the challenges is to increase the coherent photon flux through a pinhole, whose size is chosen to match the beam's horizontal transverse coherence length l_h. We adopted an approach to vertically focus the x-ray beam so as to match its vertical transverse coherence length l_v (at NSLS X13, l_v approximately 50 l_h, l_h approximately 12 micrometers at 3 KeV) with l_h. By demagnifying the vertical size by a factor of l_v/l_h, we expect to increase the intensity of the x-rays through the pin hole by the same factor while keeping the beam coherent. A piece of commercial 3/8' thick float glass, by virtue of its low surface roughness (approximately 3 angstroms rms), good reflectivity in the low photon energy range of interest and low cost, was chosen as the mirror material. A computer controlled motorized bender with a four point bending mechanism was designed and built to bend the float glass to a continuously variable radius of curvature from -700 m (intrinsic curvature of the glass surface) to < 300 m, measured with the Long Trace Profiler at the BNL Metrology Lab. This mirror bender assembly allows us to continuously change the focal length of the x-ray mirror down to 0.5 m under our experimental conditions. At the NSLS X13 Prototype Small Gap Undulator beamline, we were able to focus the x-ray beam from a vertical size of 0.5 mm to approximately 25 micrometers at the focal point 54 cm from the mirror center, thus increasing the photon flux density by a factor of 20. Results also show that, as expected, at an incident angle of 9 mrad, the mirror cuts off the harmonics of the undulator spectrum, leaving a clean 3 KeV fundamental for our experiments.

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Zhijian Yin, Lonny E. Berman, Steve B. Dierker, Eric Dufresne, and D. Peter Siddons "Simple x-ray focusing mirror using float glass", Proc. SPIE 2856, Optics for High-Brightness Synchrotron Radiation Beamlines II, (22 November 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.259862

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