X‐ray optics and telescope mirror technology form the backbone of high-energy astrophysical research, enabling the capture and precise imaging of celestial X‐ray sources. Advances in the fabrication ...

X‐ray mirror metrology and optics is a rapidly evolving field that underpins the performance of advanced X‐ray imaging systems and next‐generation light sources. The discipline focuses on the precise ...

X-ray mirrors which can be made of polished glass ceramics, are given a coat of metal to produce an X-ray reflection. Smooth metallic surfaces like this can reflect X-rays at shallow angles, which may ...

(Nanowerk News) A new laser speckle angular measurement (SAM) technique detailed in a paper in Light: Science and Applications, published today demonstrates how slope ...

Ball Aerospace is celebrating today’s launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) from French Guiana. The Colorado-based company designed and built the advanced optical technology and ...

NASA-funded photolithography technique could be ‘game-changer’ for optical applications, they say. Silicon mirrors with etched stress correction patterns. Technologies that depend on lightweight, high ...

Advanced space telescopes like the ones currently envisaged by NASA and collaborators require advanced mirrors for their operation. Making those high-resolution thin-shell coated mirrors remains ...