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ArticleLight, science & applications2021

Nano-precision metrology of X-ray mirrors with laser speckle angular measurement.

Hongchang Wang, Simone Moriconi, Kawal Sawhney

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Article in Light, science & applications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  1. Speckle-based curvature optical metrology.Light, science & applications · 2026
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  5. Noninvasive evaluation of the skin barrier in reconstructed human epidermis using speckle analysis: Correlation with Raman microspectroscopy.Skin research and technology : official journal of International Society for Bioengineering and the Skin (ISBS) [and] International Society for Digital Imaging of Skin (ISDIS) [and] International Society for Skin Imaging (ISSI) · 2024
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Hongchang WangDiamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, OX11 0DE, UK. hongchang.wang@diamond.ac.uk.
Simone MoriconiDiamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, OX11 0DE, UK.
Kawal SawhneyDiamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, OX11 0DE, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

X-ray mirrors are widely used for synchrotron radiation, free-electron lasers, and astronomical telescopes. The short wavelength and grazing incidence impose strict limits on the permissible slope error. Advanced polishing techniques have already produced mirrors with slope errors below 50 nrad root mean square (rms), but existing metrology techniques struggle to measure them. Here, we describe a laser speckle angular measurement (SAM) approach to overcome such limitations. We also demonstrate that the angular precision of slope error measurements can be pushed down to 20nrad rms by utilizing an advanced sub-pixel tracking algorithm. Furthermore, SAM allows the measurement of mirrors in two dimensions with radii of curvature as low as a few hundred millimeters. Importantly, the instrument based on SAM is compact, low-cost, and easy to integrate with most other existing X-ray mirror metrology instruments, such as the long trace profiler (LTP) and nanometer optical metrology (NOM). The proposed nanometrology method represents an important milestone and potentially opens up new possibilities to develop next-generation super-polished X-ray mirrors, which will advance the development of X-ray nanoprobes, coherence preservation, and astronomical physics.

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PMID34552044
PMCPMC8458457

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