Fabrication and performance of blazed transmission gratings for x-ray astronomy
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Schattenburg, Mark Lee
Ahn, Minseung
Heilmann, Ralf K
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July 2008
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Proceedings of SPIE
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The International Society for Optical Engineering
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Heilmann, Ralf K., Minseung Ahn, and Mark L. Schattenburg. “Fabrication and performance of blazed transmission gratings for x-ray astronomy.” Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. Ed. Martin J. L. Turner & Kathryn A. Flanagan. Marseille, France: SPIE, 2008. 701106-10. © 2008 SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering
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We have developed a new type of soft x-ray diffraction grating. This critical-angle transmission (CAT) grating combines the advantages of traditional transmission gratings (low mass, extremely relaxed alignment and flatness tolerances) with those of x-ray reflection gratings (high efficiency due to blazing in the direction of grazing-incidence reflection, increased resolution due to the use of higher diffraction orders). In addition, grating spectrometers based on CAT gratings are well-suited for co-existence with high-energy focal plane microcalorimeter detectors as planned for the Constellation-X mission, since most high-energy x rays are neither absorbed nor deflected, and arrive at the telescope focus. We describe the CAT grating principle and design, and fabrication and x-ray diffraction efficiency results for a CAT grating with 1742 lines/mm. We have observed up to 46% diffraction efficiency in a single order, and up to 55% at blaze at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. We present our recent fabrication and soft x-ray diffraction results for 200 nm-period (5000 lines/mm) gratings.
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MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.789176
