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Wavefront Metrology and Manipulation

Current Research Topics

  • Vortex Fresnel Zone Plates
  • Grating-based Wavefront Metrology

X-ray diffractive optics offer great versatility to manipulate X-ray beams for interesting scientific applications. Tailored X-ray diffractive optics, such as the different type of Fresnel zone plates shown in figure 1, can perform advanced optical functions and manipulate the wavefront and focus of the X-ray beams.

Advanced Fresnel Zone Plates
Figure 1. The ordinary pattern of a Fresnel zone plate can be modified to achieve advanced optical functions to manipulate the wavefront and focus of the X-ray beam.

On the other hand, grating-based X-ray interferometry (see figure 2) has ventured into many areas of X-ray imaging and wavefront metrology, since its first demonstration by LMN researchers in 2002 [1]. A typical grating interferometer consists of a phase shifting grating G1 made made of silicon which diffracts the incident radiation mainly into a first and minus first diffraction order that propagate at angles +θ and -θ with respect to their original direction of propagation. These two orders interfere at a distance d downstream, forming a periodic interference pattern that can be analyzed by an absorbing grating G2made of gold and a camera. Any refracting object in the beam, such as the wedge shown in figure 2, a biomedical or material science sample in imaging [2] or an X-ray optical element in metrology, leads to a locally modified propagation direction of the X-ray beam. This beam angle α leads to a local lateral shift of the interference pattern that can be detected by the combination of analyzer grating and camera. From this shift, the refraction angle α can be quantitatively determined.

Grating-based X-ray Interferometer
Figure 2: Working principle of a grating-based X-ray interferometer for phase contrast imaging and wavefront metrology.

Publications

  1. C. David, B. Nöhammer, H.H. Solak, E. Ziegler, Differential x-ray phase contrast imaging using a shearing interferometer, Applied Physics Letters 81, no. 17 (2002) p. 3287-3290.

  2. T. Weitkamp, B. Nöhammer, A. Diaz, C. David, E. Ziegler, X-ray wavefront analysis and optics characterization with a grating interferometer, Applied Physics Letters 86 (2005) p. 054101-054103.

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Laboratory for X-ray Nano-Optics
Paul Scherrer Institut
5232 Villigen PSI
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Telephone: +41 56 310 37 53
E-mail: christian.david@psi.ch

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