17 May 2023 Multi-image x-ray interferometer module: I. Design concept and proof-of-concept experiments with fine-pitch slits
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Abstract

We propose an x-ray imaging system, multi-image x-ray interferometer module (MIXIM), with which a very high angular resolution can be achieved even with a small system size. MIXIM is composed of equally spaced multiple slits and an x-ray detector, and its angular resolution is inversely proportional to the distance between them. Here, we report our evaluation experiments of MIXIM with a newly adopted CMOS sensor with a high spatial resolution of 2.5 μm. Our previous experiments with a prototype MIXIM were limited to one-dimensional imaging, and more importantly, the achieved angular resolution was only ∼1, severely constrained due to the spatial resolution of the adopted sensor with a pixel size of 4.25 μm. By contrast, one-dimensional images obtained in this experiment had a higher angular resolution of 0.5″ when a configured system size was only ∼1 m, which demonstrates that MIXIM can simultaneously realize a high angular resolution and compact size. We also successfully obtained a two-dimensional profile of an x-ray beam for the first time for MIXIM by introducing a periodic pinhole mask. The highest angular resolution achieved in our experiments is smaller than 0.1″ with a mask-sensor distance of 866.5 cm, which shows the high scalability of MIXIM.

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Kazunori Asakura, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Tomoki Kawabata, Yoneyama Tomokage, Hirofumi Noda, Hironori Matsumoto, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Hiroshi Nakajima, Hisamitsu Awaki, and Junko S. Hiraga "Multi-image x-ray interferometer module: I. Design concept and proof-of-concept experiments with fine-pitch slits," Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 9(2), 025004 (17 May 2023). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.9.2.025004
Received: 29 November 2022; Accepted: 2 May 2023; Published: 17 May 2023
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KEYWORDS
Spatial resolution

X-rays

X-ray imaging

Imaging systems

Interferometers

Design and modelling

X-ray detectors

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