Silicon Pore Optics (SPO) has been established as a new type of x-ray optics that enables future x-ray observatories such as Athena. SPO is being developed at cosine with the European Space Agency (ESA) and academic and industrial partners. The optics modules are lightweight, yet stiff, high-resolution x-ray optics, that shall allow missions to reach an unprecedentedly large effective area of several square meters, operating in the 0.2 - 12 keV band with an angular resolution better than 5 arc seconds. In this paper we are going to discuss the latest generation production facilities and we are going to present results of the production of mirror modules for a focal length of 12 m, including x-ray test results.

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Maximilien J. Collon, Giuseppe Vacanti, Nicolas Barriere, Boris Landgraf, Ramses Guenther, Mark Vervest, Roy van der Hoeven, Abdel Chatbi, David Girou, Jessica Sforzini, Marco W. Beijersbergen, Marcos Bavdaz, Eric Wille, Sebastiaan Fransen, Brian Shortt, Jeroen Haneveld, Karin Booysen, Arenda Koelewijn, Maurice Wijnperlé, Coen van Baren, Alexander Eigenraam, Peter Müller, Michael Krumrey, Vadim Burwitz, Daniele Spiga, Giovanni Pareschi, Sonny Massahi, Finn Christensen, Desiree Della Monica Ferreira, Giuseppe Valsecchi, Paul Oliver, Ian Chequer, Kevin Ball, and Karl-Heinz Zuknik, "Silicon pore optics mirror module production and testing," Proc. SPIE 10699, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 106990Y (Presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation: June 12, 2018; Published: 18 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314479.