Fabrication and diffraction efficiency of a large-format, replicated X-ray reflection grating

DM Miles, JA McCoy, RL McEntaffer… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the methodology used to fabricate an X-ray reflection grating and describe a
technique for grating replication. Further, we present the experimental procedure and results …

Extreme ultraviolet and soft x-ray diffraction efficiency of a blazed reflection grating fabricated by thermally activated selective topography equilibration

JA McCoy, RL McEntaffer, DM Miles - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Future observatories utilizing reflection grating spectrometers for extreme ultraviolet (EUV)
and soft X-ray (SXR) spectroscopy require high-fidelity gratings with both blazed groove …

The Rockets for Extended-source X-ray Spectroscopy Instrument Design

DM Miles, RL McEntaffer, JH Tutt, L Baker… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Rockets for Extended-source X-ray Spectroscopy (tREXS) are a series of
suborbital rocket payloads designed to collect spectral emission from extended astronomical …

Integral equation methods from grating theory to photonics: an overview and new approaches for conical diffraction

G Schmidt, BH Kleemann - Journal of Modern Optics, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The boundary integral equation method (BIM) was one of the first methods in grating theory.
It has been used for the investigation of diffraction gratings of extremely different kinds as …

Diffractive optical element for creating visual 3D images

A Goncharsky, A Goncharsky, S Durlevich - Optics Express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
A method is proposed to compute and synthesize the microrelief of a diffractive optical
element to produce a new visual security feature–the vertical 3D/3D switch effect. The …

High-order multilayer coated blazed gratings for high resolution soft x-ray spectroscopy

DL Voronov, LI Goray, T Warwick, VV Yashchuk… - Optics …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
A grand challenge in soft x-ray spectroscopy is to drive the resolving power of
monochromators and spectrometers from the 10^ 4 achieved routinely today to well above …

[PDF][PDF] Nonlinear continuum growth model of multiscale reliefs as applied to rigorous analysis of multilayer short-wave scattering intensity. I. Gratings

L Goray, M Lubov - Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2013 - journals.iucr.org
It is shown that taking into proper account certain terms in the nonlinear continuum equation
of thin-film growth makes it applicable to the simulation of the surface of multilayer gratings …

Application of the rigorous method to x-ray and neutron beam scattering on rough surfaces

LI Goray - Journal of Applied Physics, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The paper presents a comprehensive numerical analysis of x-ray and neutron scattering
from finite-conducting rough surfaces which is performed in the frame of the boundary …

Absorption and scattering by structured interfaces in X-rays

L Goray - Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 2021 - journals.iucr.org
Promising achievements of resonance inelastic X-ray scattering and other spectroscopy
studies in the range from hard X-ray to extreme ultraviolet require the development of exact …

Light diffraction from a phase grating at oblique incidence in the intermediate diffraction regime

G Heuberger, J Klepp, J Guo, Y Tomita, M Fally - Applied Physics B, 2021 - Springer
We experimentally characterize the positions of the diffraction maxima of a phase grating on
a screen, for laser light at oblique incidence (so-called off-plane diffraction or conical …