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Measurement of X-ray Beam Coherence along Multiple Directions Using 2-D Checkerboard Phase Grating
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Beam expansion in linear constant period gratings

L M Walpita, C W Pitt

    Applied Optics
    |October 1, 1984
    PubMed
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