Conveners
Session 7: Optics & Instrumentation
- Jörg Schwenke
Detectors with Microchannel Plates have found niche applications in soft X-ray UV photon detection, where event counting with high spatial and timing resolution is needed. Different types of readouts for these detectors have been developed over the last several decades. The Timepix readout ASIC placed directly below the MCP in the vacuum is one of the possible readout options. The capability...
X-ray photons with Orbital Angular Momentum are expected to contribute new sensitivities to a variety of existing synchrotron techniques. Recent experiments at the ALS employing OAM will be discussed.
We are developing x-ray adaptive optics at the Advanced Light Source, commissioning wavefront sensors for online wavefront monitoring and characterizing x-ray deformable mirrors.
