Review Article

Focusing Polycapillary Optics and Their Applications

Table 1

Results for monolithic focusing optic in a synchrotron beam [38]. The spot size was measured using the knife edge technique. The gain was calculated as for (9) taking 𝑓 i n 𝐿 , given the low divergence of the synchrotron beam.

X ray Energy (keV)Spot size (mm)Transmission (%)Measured Gain 350 μm pinholeCalculated Gain 350 μm pinhole

60.09367881
80.084996110
100.09398387
120.09397487
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