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Parabolic single-crystal diamond compound refractive lenses for coherent x-ray imaging(Conference Presentation)

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Publication Date2016-11-02
AuthorsSergey Terentyev, Vladimir D. Blank, S. N. Polyakov, S. I. Zholudev, A. Snigirev
InstitutionsTechnological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials, Argonne National Laboratory
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We demonstrate parabolic single-crystal diamond compound refractive lenses [1] designed for coherent x-ray imaging resilient to extreme thermal and radiation loading expected from next generation light sources. To ensure the preservation of coherence and resilience, the lenses are manufactured from the highest-quality single-crystalline synthetic diamond material grown by a high-pressure high-temperature technique. Picosecond laser milling is applied to machine lenses to parabolic shapes with a 1-micron precision and surface roughness. A compound refractive lens comprised of six lenses with a radius of curvature R=200 microns at the vertex of the parabola and a geometrical aperture A=900 microns focuses 10keV x-ray photons from an undulator source at the Advanced Photon Source facility to a focal spot size of ~ 10x40 microns^2 with a gain factor of ~100.\ [1] S. Terentyev, V. Blank, S. Polyakov, S. Zholudev, A. Snigirev, M. Polikarpov, T. Kolodziej, J. Qian, H. Zhou, and Yu. Shvyd’ko Applied Physics Letters 107, 111108 (2015); doi: 10.1063/1.4931357