X-ray microscope
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An X-ray microscope uses electromagnetic radiation in the X-ray band to produce magnified images of objects. Since X-rays penetrate most objects, there is no need to specially prepare them for X-ray m
An X-ray microscopy image of a living 10-day-old canola plant
Indirect-drive laser inertial confinement fusion uses a "hohlraum" irradiated with laser beam cones from either side on its inner surface to bathe a fusion microcapsule inside with smooth high-intensity X-rays. The highest-energy X-rays that penetrate the hohlraum can be visualized using an X-ray microscope such as here, where X-radiation is represented in orange/red.
A square beryllium foil window mounted in a steel case to seal a vacuum chamber of an X-ray microscope. Beryllium, due to its low Z number is highly transparent to X-rays.
X-ray optics
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X-ray optics is the branch of optics dealing with X-rays, rather than visible light. It deals with focusing and other ways of manipulating the X-ray beams for research techniques such as X-ray diffrac
X-ray microscope
…parts would be difficult to use for X-ray applications. Early X-ray microscopes by Paul Kirkpatrick and Albert Baez used grazing-incidence reflective X-ray optics to focus the X-rays, which grazed X-rays off parabolic curved mirrors at a very high angle of incidence. An alternative method of focusing X-rays is…
A polycapillary lens for focusing X-rays
One of the mirrors of XRISM made of 203 foils