X-Ray Optics

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Overview of the Field

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   Pages 1-35

3. Dynamical Theory of X-Ray Diffraction (Focus on Backscattering)

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   Pages 37-142

4. Principles of Multiple-Crystal X-Ray Diffraction

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   Pages 143-170

5. Theory of X-Ray Fabry-Pérot Resonators

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   Pages 171-214

6. High-Resolution X-Ray Monochromators

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   Pages 215-286

7. High-Resolution X-Ray Analyzers

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   Pages 287-314

8. Towards Realizing X-Ray Resonators

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   Pages 315-333

9. Back Matter

   Pages 335-406

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The use of x rays has moved in the forefront of science and technology in the second half of the 20th century. This progress has been greatly stimulated by the advent of synchrotron x-ray sources in the 1960s. The undulator-based synchrotron radiation sources which have appeared in the last decade of the 20th century gave a new impetus to such development. The brilliance of the x-ray sources has increased by 12 orders of magnitude in 40 years and this trend does not show any signs of stagnation. The future x-ray sources of the 21th century based on free-electron lasers driven by linear accelerators will provide sub-picosecond radiation pulses with by many orders of magnitude higher brilliance and full transverse coherence. The x-ray sources of the newest generation offer a possibility to realize more than ever before the great potential of x-ray optics and, as a consequence, to elaborate new sophisticated instrumentation with unprecedented resolution and eventually to move in new directions of research in x-ray technology, materials science, fundamental physics, life sciences, etc.

• Experiment
• Interferometer
• Isotope
• Monochromator
• X-ray Bragg diffraction
• X-ray analyzers
• X-ray monochromators
• X-ray optics
• X-ray resonators
• X-ray scattering
• X-ray spectrometers
• optics

• Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  Yuri Shvyd’ko

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