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Generalized pupil function of a compound X-ray refractive lens

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Publication Date2017-10-02
JournalOptics Express
AuthorsSergey Gasilov, Tomy dos Santos Rolo, Alberto Mittone, S. N. Polyakov, Sergey Terentyev
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Quality of a refractive compound X-ray lens can be limited by imperfections in surfaces of unit lenses and stacking precision. In general case both the lens transmission and optical aberrations define properties of a beam in the lens exit plane; together they can be expressed in terms of the generalized pupil function. In this work we measure this function for a diamond single crystal compound refractive lens. Consequently, we apply the pupil function to evaluate the performance of the examined compound refractive X-ray lens. A number of practically important conclusions can be drawn from such analysis.