Figure 2
Properties as a function of photon energy of a grating diffracting an incident beam off-plane as shown in Fig. 1 for the first four diffraction orders m. In (a) the operation angles γ according to equation (1) for blaze maximum operation of a grating with blaze angle δ = 29.5° are superimposed onto color-coded iso-reflectivity curves for a gold-coated grating (see color bar at upper right). In (b) the related reflection coefficients for a perfect mirror are shown, while in (c) the transmission of a plane mirror/grating pair according to equation (9) is presented, which also includes the observed reduction of the diffraction efficiency according to equation (8) . The related spectral resolving powers according to (2) including the diffraction broadening are shown in (d). |