2026-09-21T12:53:11Zhttps://dspace.mit.edu/server/oai/requestoai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/1056272022-01-13T07:54:07Zcom_1721.1_7582com_1721.1_7581col_1721.1_131024
Suzanne Romaine and Marshall Bautz.
Ames, Andrew O. (Andrew Owen)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
2016-12-05T19:55:33Z
2016-12-05T19:55:33Z
2016
2016
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105627
963177784
Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 2016.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-71).
In this thesis, I present a beamline system designed and built at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) to measure the reflectivity and resolution of small diameter multilayer coated Wolter optics. These optics, used for imaging of x-rays and neutrons, have numerous applications in areas such as medicine, fusion research and planetary science. The beamline consists of a divergent x-ray source, an energy sensitive detector, and a set of precise, computer controlled motorized stages for alignment. A dedicated software package was developed to interface with the detector and stages using the Python programming language. The beamline was used to measure the reflectivity and spatial resolution of two x-ray optics recently fabricated at the CfA. These results are presented and compared with theoretical models for reflectivity from a multilayer surface.
by Andrew O. Ames.
S.B.
71 pages
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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