Design Of The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer Long-Wavelength Grazing Incidence Telescope Optics

David S. Finley; Patrick Jelinsky; Stuart Bowyer; Roger F. Malina

doi:10.1117/12.942169

9 August 1988 Design Of The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer Long-Wavelength Grazing Incidence Telescope Optics

David S. Finley, Patrick Jelinsky, Stuart Bowyer, Roger F. Malina

Proceedings Volume 0830, Grazing Incidence Optics for Astronomical and Laboratory Applications; (1988) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.942169
Event: 31st Annual Technical Symposium on Optical and Optoelectronic Applied Sciences and Engineering, 1987, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Designing optics for photometry in the long-wavelength portion of the EUV spectrum (400-900 Å) poses different problems from those arising for optics, operating shortward of 400 Å. The available filter materials which transmit radiation longward of 400 Å are also highly transparent at wavelengths shortward of 100 Å. Conventional EUV optics, with grazing angles of ⪅10°, have very high throughput in the EUV, which persists to wavelengths shortward of 100 Å. Use of such optics with the longer-wavelength EUV filters thus results in an unacceptably large soft x-ray leak. We have overcome this problem by developing a mirror design with larger graze angles ≥20°, which has high throughput at wavelengths longer than 400 Å but at the same time very little throughput shortward of 100 Å.

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David S. Finley, Patrick Jelinsky, Stuart Bowyer, and Roger F. Malina "Design Of The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer Long-Wavelength Grazing Incidence Telescope Optics", Proc. SPIE 0830, Grazing Incidence Optics for Astronomical and Laboratory Applications, (9 August 1988); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.942169

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