Collimating Montel mirror as part of a multi-crystal analyzer system for resonant inelastic X-ray scattering
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- 作者：Jungho Kim ; Xianbo Shi ; Diego Casa ; Jun Qian ; XianRong Huang and Thomas Gog
- 关键词：X-ray optics ; multilayer mirror ; X-ray collimation ; resonant inelastic X-ray scattering
- 刊名：Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：July 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：23
- 期：4
- 页码：880-886
- 全文大小：1401K
- ISSN：1600-5775
文摘
Advances in resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) have come in lockstep with improvements in energy resolution. Currently, the best energy resolution at the Ir L3-edge stands at ∼25 meV, which is achieved using a diced Si(844) spherical crystal analyzer. However, spherical analyzers are limited by their intrinsic reflection width. A novel analyzer system using multiple flat crystals provides a promising way to overcome this limitation. For the present design, an energy resolution at or below 10 meV was selected. Recognizing that the angular acceptance of flat crystals is severely limited, a collimating element is essential to achieve the necessary solid-angle acceptance. For this purpose, a laterally graded, parabolic, multilayer Montel mirror was designed for use at the Ir L3-absorption edge. It provides an acceptance larger than 10 mrad, collimating the reflected X-ray beam to smaller than 100 µrad, in both vertical and horizontal directions. The performance of this mirror was studied at beamline 27-ID at the Advanced Photon Source. X-rays from a diamond (111) monochromator illuminated a scattering source of diameter 5 µm, generating an incident beam on the mirror with a well determined divergence of 40 mrad. A flat Si(111) crystal after the mirror served as the divergence analyzer. From X-ray measurements, ray-tracing simulations and optical metrology results, it was established that the Montel mirror satisfied the specifications of angular acceptance and collimation quality necessary for a high-resolution RIXS multi-crystal analyzer system.