VLS Diffraction Gratings for Synchrotrons

High efficiency mechanically ruled VLS blazed diffraction gratings

  • Simulation services for reliable predictions of in-beamline grating efficiency

  • Line densities at thousands of lines per millimeter

  • Variable line spacing (VLS)

  • Blaze angles as low as 0.1 degree

  • Large gratings up to 500 mm in length

  • Broad range of optics design capabilities

Inprentus manufactures blazed diffraction gratings for x-ray and ultraviolet applications using a nano-scale, contact-mode lithography technique, a method of controlled mechanical deformation of metallic surfaces. This technology is particularly suited to x-ray and UV diffractive optics in which features must be shaped with 0.1-degree angular precision and positioned with nanometer precision over distances of tens of centimeters.‎‎‎‎⠀

Blaze

Facets

Inprentus can create blaze angles below 1.0° with line densities from 50 to over 5000 lines per milimeter.  

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Simulations

Inprentus simulation services are available with all grating purchases and provide reliable predictions of in-beamline grating efficiency.

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RIXS 

Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) data from Beamline 8.0.1 at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.