Designing thin-film optical filters for soft x-ray astronomical telescopes

Alan Owens; Kieran J. McCarthy; Alan A. Wells; Barry J. Kent

doi:10.1117/12.167215

1 February 1994 Designing thin-film optical filters for soft x-ray astronomical telescopes

Alan Owens, Kieran J. McCarthy, Alan A. Wells, Barry J. Kent

Proceedings Volume 2011, Multilayer and Grazing Incidence X-Ray/EUV Optics II; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.167215
Event: SPIE's 1993 International Symposium on Optics, Imaging, and Instrumentation, 1993, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The rational behind optical filter design for satellite-borne soft X-ray telescopes is elucidated by a series of sample calculations. By way of example we present the filter designs for two filters to be flown on-board the Joint European X-ray telescope (JET-X).

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Alan Owens, Kieran J. McCarthy, Alan A. Wells, and Barry J. Kent "Designing thin-film optical filters for soft x-ray astronomical telescopes", Proc. SPIE 2011, Multilayer and Grazing Incidence X-Ray/EUV Optics II, (1 February 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.167215

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