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Spherical Crystal X-ray Imager
February 21, 2011
LLE has developed a monochromatic x-ray imager for backlit and self-emission plasma imaging at Cu Kα line radiation at 1.541 Å (8.048 keV) . The image is formed by a spherically bent quartz crystal with a diameter of 25 mm and a curvature radius of 500 mm. The crystal acts like a focusing spherical mirror forming an x-ray image with a very good spatial resolution.