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ShadowOui: a new visual environment for X-ray optics and synchrotron beamline simulations
Luca Rebuffi1, Manuel Sánchez Del Río2
1Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste SCpA, Trieste, Italy.
Abstract:
A new computer environment to perform simulations on synchrotron experiments has been designed. It performs ray-tracing simulations using the popular ray-tracing code SHADOW. With this new application one can define, in a very easy and elegant way, one or several optical systems (beamlines) and perform calculations of the propagation of the X-ray beam through it. Many complementary tools and supplementary calculations improve and extend the functionality of SHADOW to deal with complex optical system optimization, including compound optical elements, iterative calculations, some sample simulations, and implementing corrections for wave optics via a hybrid model.
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