Abstract

Replica technology was developed for manufacturing numerous low-cost grazing incidence x-ray mirrors for both laboratory and astrophysical experiments. About forty mirrors with apertures between 1.7 and 24 cm have so far been made. The results of tests both at optical and x-ray wavelengths indicate that replica optics is well suited for space and laboratory uses.

© 1988 Optical Society of America

High-throughput replica optics

Piet A. J. de Korte
Appl. Opt. 27(8) 1440-1446 (1988)

X-ray and optical profiler analysis of electroformed x-ray optics

Yutaka Matsui, Melville P. Ulmer, and Peter Z. Takacs
Appl. Opt. 27(8) 1558-1563 (1988)

Optics for the x-ray imaging concentrators aboard the x-ray astronomy satellite SAX

Oberto Citterio, Giuseppe Bonelli, G. Conti, E. Mattaini, E. Santambrogio, B. Sacco, E. Lanzara, Heinrich Brauninger, and Wolfgang Burkert
Appl. Opt. 27(8) 1470-1475 (1988)

Fabrication, evaluation, and performance of machined metal grazing incidence telescopes

Stuart Bowyer and James Green
Appl. Opt. 27(8) 1414-1422 (1988)

Electroform replication used for multiple x-ray mirror production

Melville P. Ulmer, William R. Purcell, Jane E. A. Loughlin, and Michael P. Kowalski
Appl. Opt. 23(23) 4233-4236 (1984)