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Opt Express. 2015 Aug 24;23(17):21719-29. doi: 10.1364/OE.23.021719.

Effective increase in beam emittance by phase-space expansion using asymmetric Bragg diffraction.

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Chia-Hung Chu, Mau-Tsu Tang, Shih-Lin Chang

PMID: 26368150 DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.021719

Abstract

We propose an innovative method to extend the utilization of the phase space downstream of a synchrotron light source for X-ray transmission microscopy. Based on the dynamical theory of X-ray diffraction, asymmetrically cut perfect crystals are applied to reshape the position-angle-wavelength space of the light source, by which the usable phase space of the source can be magnified by over one hundred times, thereby "phase-space-matching" the source with the objective lens of the microscope. The method's validity is confirmed using SHADOW code simulations, and aberration through an optical lens such as a Fresnel zone plate is examined via matrix optics for nano-resolution X-ray images.

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