Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Perfect X-ray focusing via fitting corrective glasses to aberrated optics

  • Frank Seiboth,
  • Andreas Schropp,
  • Maria Scholz,
  • Felix Wittwer,
  • Christian Rödel,
  • Martin Wünsche,
  • Tobias Ullsperger,
  • Stefan Nolte,
  • Jussi Rahomäki,
  • Karolis Parfeniukas,
  • Stylianos Giakoumidis,
  • Ulrich Vogt,
  • Ulrich Wagner,
  • Christoph Rau,
  • Ulrike Boesenberg,
  • Jan Garrevoet,
  • Gerald Falkenberg,
  • Eric C. Galtier,
  • Hae Ja Lee,
  • Bob Nagler,
  • Christian G. Schroer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14623
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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X-ray optics are notoriously challenging to fabricate due to the strict tolerances that result from the short wavelength of radiation. Here, Seibothet al. carefully quantify aberrations in complex X-ray lenses and correct them with an easy-to-fabricate broadband phase plate.