Development of a second generation SiLC-based Laue lens

David Girou; Colin Wade; Nicolas Barrière; Maximilien Collon; Ramses Günther; Lorraine Hanlon; John Tomsick; Alexey Uliyanov; Giuseppe Vacanti; Andreas Zoglauer

doi:10.1117/12.2273830

4 October 2017 Development of a second generation SiLC-based Laue lens

David Girou, Colin Wade, Nicolas Barrière, Maximilien Collon, Ramses Günther, Lorraine Hanlon, John Tomsick, Alexey Uliyanov, Giuseppe Vacanti, Andreas Zoglauer

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Proceedings Volume 10399, Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy VIII; 103991Y (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2273830
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

For more than a decade, cosine has been developing silicon pore optics (SPO), lightweight modular X-ray optics made of stacks of bent and directly bonded silicon mirror plates. This technology, which has been selected by ESA to realize the optics of ATHENA, can also be used to fabricate soft gamma-ray Laue lenses where Bragg diffraction through the bulk silicon is exploited, rather than grazing incidence reflection. Silicon Laue Components (SiLCs) are made of stacks of curved, polished, wedged silicon plates, allowing the concentration of radiation in both radial and azimuthal directions. This greatly increases the focusing properties of a Laue lens since the size of the focal spot is no longer determined by the size of the individual single crystals, but by the accuracy of the applied curvature. After a successful proof of concept in 2013, establishing the huge potential of this technology, a new project has been launched in Spring 2017 at cosine to further develop and test this technique. Here we present the latest advances of the second generation of SiLCs made from even thinner silicon plates stacked by a robot with dedicated tools in a class-100 clean room environment.

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David Girou, Colin Wade, Nicolas Barrière, Maximilien Collon, Ramses Günther, Lorraine Hanlon, John Tomsick, Alexey Uliyanov, Giuseppe Vacanti, and Andreas Zoglauer "Development of a second generation SiLC-based Laue lens", Proc. SPIE 10399, Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy VIII, 103991Y (4 October 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2273830

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