Off-plane x-ray reflection grating fabrication

Thomas J. Peterson; Casey T. DeRoo; Hannah Marlowe; Randall L. McEntaffer; Drew M. Miles; James H. Tutt; Ted B. Schultz

doi:10.1117/12.2188302

21 September 2015 Off-plane x-ray reflection grating fabrication

Thomas J. Peterson, Casey T. DeRoo, Hannah Marlowe, Randall L. McEntaffer, Drew M. Miles, James H. Tutt, Ted B. Schultz

Proceedings Volume 9603, Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy VII; 960317 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2188302
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Off-plane X-ray diffraction gratings with precision groove profiles at the submicron scale will be used in next generation X-ray spectrometers. Such gratings will be used on a current NASA suborbital rocket mission, the Off-plane Grating Rocket Experiment (OGRE), and have application for future grating missions. The fabrication of these gratings does not come without challenges. High performance off-plane gratings must be fabricated with precise radial grating patterns, optically at surfaces, and specific facet angles. Such gratings can be made using a series of common micro-fabrication techniques. The resulting process is highly customizable, making it useful for a variety of different mission architectures. In this paper, we detail the fabrication method used to produce high performance off-plane gratings and report the results of a preliminary qualification test of a grating fabricated in this manner. The grating was tested in the off-plane `Littrow' configuration, for which the grating is most efficient for a given diffraction order, and found to achieve 42% relative efficiency in the blaze order with respect to all diffracted light.

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Thomas J. Peterson, Casey T. DeRoo, Hannah Marlowe, Randall L. McEntaffer, Drew M. Miles, James H. Tutt, and Ted B. Schultz "Off-plane x-ray reflection grating fabrication", Proc. SPIE 9603, Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy VII, 960317 (21 September 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2188302

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