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Published on: August 25, 2016
Design of coma-free Hettrick-Underwood type spectrometers for high energy resolution RIXS experimental station
Zhetong Li1,2, Jiatai Feng3, Chaofan Xue4,5
1Center for Transformative Science, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China.
Abstract:
The Hettrick-Underwood (HU) type design, consisting of a pre-focusing mirror and a varied-line-spacing planar grating (VLS-PG), for the high resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering spectrometer is considered. The light path of the HU design is analyzed, and the analytical functions determining the groove parameters of VLS-grating are given. Efforts are made to compare the different choices of the pre-focusing mirrors, circular cylindrical (HU-CM) and elliptical cylindrical (HU-EM). Although the HU-EM type offers great tuning properties with variable-included-angle, it imposes high requirement on the optical element manufacturing accuracy, while the HU-CM type design couples the coma contributions from the pre-mirror and the grating, allowing for mutual compensation of the manufacturing errors of the two optical elements.
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