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Appl Opt. 2002 Apr 01;41(10):1846-51. doi: 10.1364/ao.41.001846.

Skylab 3600 groove/mm replica grating with a scandium-silicon multilayer coating and high normal-incidence efficiency at 38-nm wavelength.

Applied optics

John F Seely, Yu A Uspenskii, Yu P Pershin, V V Kondratenko, A V Vinogradov

Affiliations

  1. Naval Research Laboratory, Space Science Division, Washington DC 20375, USA. [email protected]

PMID: 11936780 DOI: 10.1364/ao.41.001846

Abstract

A Sc-Si multilayer coating was applied to a replica of the 3600 groove/mm grating, developed for the SO82A spectroheliograph that flew on the Skylab mission, for the purpose of enhancing the normal-incidence efficiency in the extreme-ultraviolet region. The efficiency, measured at an angle of incidence of 6 degrees with synchrotron radiation, had a maximum value of 7.2% at a wavelength of 38 nm and was a factor of 3 higher than the efficiency of the gold-coated Skylab grating. The measured efficiency of the Sc-Si grating was in good agreement with the efficiency calculated by use of the modified integral method.

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