Figure 2
Schematic of the coordinate systems in use: the mirror-canonical coordinate system (x, y, z) (compare with Fig. 1) and the mirror-related coordinate system (X, Y, Z), where the tangent to the X = 0 profile at the mirror centre P0 (X = 0, Y = 0, Z = 0) is equal to zero. The position of the source S is in the focal point of the diaboloid's generating parabola (the cyan line); F denotes the focus point for the central ray (the red lines). The conjugate (beamline optical design) parameters of the diaboloidal mirror (the thick blue line) are the object distance (from S to P0), p, the image distance (from P0 to F), q, and the angle of incidence for the central ray at the centre of the mirror, θ. |