Affiliations: Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, Groupe Optique X,
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS UA 176, 75231 Paris Cedex 05,
France. | Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement
Electromagnétique (LURE), Campus d'Orsay, Bat. 209 D, 91405 Orsay Cedex,
France. | Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, Groupe Optique X,
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS UA 176, 75231 Paris Cedex 05,
France. | CEA-DAM, DRIF/DCRE/SDE, Centre d'Etudes de
Bruyères-le-Châtel, BP12, 91680 Bruyères-le-Châtel, France. | Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement
Electromagnétique (LURE), Campus d'Orsay, Bat. 209 D, 91405 Orsay Cedex,
France.
Note: [] Corresponding author: J.-M. André, Laboratoire de Chimie
Physique, Groupe Optique X, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS UA 176,
11 Rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France. Fax: +33 1 44 27 62
26; E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: The concept of X-UV Lamellar Multilayer Amplitude Grating (LMAG) is
introduced and a method of fabrication is given. Dynamical and kinematic
theories of the diffraction by a LMAG are presented. Different applications of
the LMAGs are considered. The first one is the achievement of a narrow bandpass
multilayer monochromator for the X-UV domain. The second one is the reduction
of specular background in the reflectivity curve of a multilayer structure. The
third one is the polychromator system which allows one to split spatially and
to perform a spectral sampling of a polychromatic beam. Finally we studied
experimentally the behavior of an LMAG in conical mounting.
