Review Article

Diffractive X-Ray Telescopes

Table 2

The primary focus efficiency, in the absence of absorption, of a stepped approximation to a PFL (see [34]).

Levels 2 (PZP) 3 4 8 16 𝑛

Efficiency 40.5% 68.4% 81.1% 95.0% 98.7% s i n c 2 ( 𝜋 / 𝑛 )