L. Raimondi

Physical-optics simulation of PSD-driven wavefront degradation in x-ray mirrors

As synchrotron and FEL sources become more brilliant and coherent, wave‑optics effects increasingly limit beamline performance. We model x‑ray propagation through mirrors, slits, and gratings in grazing‑incidence geometries, quantifying how diffraction, scattering, partial coherence, surface figure and microroughness,...