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Measuring the performance of adjustable x-ray optics with wavefront sensing

Authors :
Stuart McMuldroch
Raegan L. Johnson-Wilke
Vanessa Marquez
Alexey Vikhlinin
Ryan Allured
Rudeger H. T. Wilke
Daniel A. Schwartz
Vincenzo Cotroneo
Susan Trolier-McKinstry
Paul B. Reid
Source :
SPIE Proceedings.
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
SPIE, 2014.

Abstract

Post-mounting figure correction is a promising avenue to produce low-mass, high-resolution X-ray telescopes. We have demonstrated the feasibility of this approach using piezoelectrically adjustable glass mirrors. Influence functions for various piezoelectric cells have previously been measured with an optical profilometer, but with significant noise. We have improved on both the speed and accuracy of these measurements using a Shack- Hartmann wavefront sensing system. Additionally, we have altered our wavefront sensing system to investigate the mid frequency roughness of our slumped glass mirrors. We report on initial results for measurements of both influence functions and mid frequency roughness and describe our path forward.

Details

ISSN :
0277786X
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
SPIE Proceedings
Accession number :
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