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). |