Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2001 · 45 citations · 0 references
Natural SciencesPhysicsOpticsRadiation DetectionRadiation PhysicsInterferometryX-ray DetectionX-ray DiffractionX-ray OpticsDiffraction ImagingDiffraction PatternsOptical InterferometersPhase ImagingPhase-contrast ImagingX-ray Beamline OpticsX-ray Imaging PhysicsX-ray Interferometry
A one-kilometer long synchrotron radiation beamline with an x- ray undulator source was completed at SPring-8. The beamline was planned to facilitate various applications of a wide-area coherent x-ray beam, development of bi-crystal x-ray interferometers for gravitational red-shift measurement and development of highly sensitive diagnostic methods of accelerator dynamics. This paper reports the structure of the long beamline as well as some selected first results including phase contrast imaging and diffraction imaging applications.