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German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923) was experimenting with electrical current when he discovered that a mysterious and invisible "ray" would pass through his flesh but leave an outline of his bones on a screen coated with a metal compound. In 1895, Röntgen made the first durable record of the internal parts of a living human: an "X-ray" image (as it came to be called) of his wife’s hand. Scientists worldwide quickly began their own experiments with X-rays, and by 1900, X-ray was widely...

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The Generation of Higher-order Laguerre-Gauss Optical Beams for High-precision Interferometry

The Generation of Higher-order Laguerre-Gauss Optical Beams for High-precision Interferometry

Published on: August 12, 2013

30-Lens interferometer for high-energy X-rays.

Mikhail Lyubomirskiy¹, Irina Snigireva¹, Victor Kohn²

¹ESRF, Grenoble 38043, France.

Journal of Synchrotron Radiation

|September 1, 2016

Summary

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A new multi-lens interferometer uses 30 lens arrays to create coherent X-ray beams for high-resolution beam diagnostics. Experiments confirmed its effectiveness in measuring beam size.

Keywords:

MEMS Si lenses Talbot effect coherence interferometry

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Area of Science:

Optics and Photonics
X-ray Instrumentation
Beam Diagnostics

Background:

High-energy X-ray applications require precise beam characterization.
Traditional beam diagnostic tools have limitations in resolution and applicability.
Interferometry offers a potential route for advanced beam analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

To report a novel high-energy multi-lens interferometer.
To demonstrate its capability for high-resolution X-ray beam diagnostics.
To validate the concept through experimental testing.

Main Methods:

Construction of a multi-lens interferometer with 30 planar compound refractive lens arrays.
Coherent illumination of the lens arrays to generate secondary sources.
Experimental testing at the ID11 ESRF beamline (30-65 keV) and recording interference patterns at Talbot distances.

Main Results:

Successful generation of interference patterns with strong longitudinal functional dependence.
Determination of an effective source size (FWHM) of approximately 15 µm from Talbot images.
Demonstration of the interferometer's potential as a high-resolution beam diagnostic tool.

Conclusions:

The novel multi-lens interferometer concept is experimentally validated.
The device is capable of high-resolution beam size measurements.
This technology offers a promising new tool for X-ray beam diagnostics.