Affiliations: [a]
Key Laboratory of Beam Technology of the Ministry of Education, College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
| [b] Applied Optics Beijing Area Laboratory, Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
| [c]
Beijing Radiation Center, Beijing, China
| [d] Key Laboratory of Laser Plasma of the Ministry of Education, College of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author: Jingduo Cui, Key Laboratory of Beam Technology of the Ministry of Education, College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China. Tel.: +01186 18801159972; E-mail: 201921220021@mail.bnu.edu.cn.
Abstract: Parabolic monocapillary X-ray lens (PMXRL) is an ideal optical device for constraining the point divergent X-ray beams to quasi-parallel beams, but the overlap of direct X-rays and reflected X-rays through PMXRL deteriorates the outgoing beam divergence. Aiming to solve this problem, this study designs and tests a square-shaped lead occluder (SSLO) embedded in PMXRL to block the direct X-rays passing through the PMXRL. Python simulations are employed to determine the geometric parameters of the SSLO as well as the optimal position of the SSLO in the PMXRL according to our proposed model. The PMXRL with a conic parameter p of 0.000939 mm and a length L of 60.8 mm is manufactured and the SSLO with a size of 0.472 mm×0.472 mm×3.4 mm is embedded into it. An optical path system based on this PMXRL is built to measure the divergence of the outgoing X-ray beam. The experimental results show that the quasi-parallel X-ray beam reaches a divergence of 0.36 mrad in the range from 15–45 mm at the PMXRL outlet. This divergence is 10 times lower than the theoretical divergence without SSLO. Our work provides an alternative method for obtaining highly parallel X-ray beam and is beneficial to generate or facilitate new applications of monocapillary optics in X-ray technology.
