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Development and performance of a versatile soft X-ray polarimeter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2010

H. Wang ,
U. H. Wagner ,
S. S. Dhesi ,
K. J. S. Sawhney ,
F. Maccherozzi ,
G. van der Laan ,
M. A. MacDonald ,
I. B. Poole ,
F. M. Quinn  and
C. J. Latimer
H. Wang*
Affiliation:
Diamond Light Source, Didcot OX11 0DE, UK
U. H. Wagner
Affiliation:
Diamond Light Source, Didcot OX11 0DE, UK
S. S. Dhesi
Affiliation:
Diamond Light Source, Didcot OX11 0DE, UK
K. J. S. Sawhney
Affiliation:
Diamond Light Source, Didcot OX11 0DE, UK
F. Maccherozzi
Affiliation:
Diamond Light Source, Didcot OX11 0DE, UK
G. van der Laan
Affiliation:
Diamond Light Source, Didcot OX11 0DE, UK
M. A. MacDonald
Affiliation:
STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington WA4 4AD, UK Canadian Light Source Inc., 101 Perimeter Road, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan SK S7N OX4, Canada
I. B. Poole
Affiliation:
STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington WA4 4AD, UK
F. M. Quinn
Affiliation:
STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington WA4 4AD, UK
C. J. Latimer
Affiliation:
Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland BT7 1NN, UK
*
†Email address for correspondence:Hongchang.Wang@diamond.ac.uk
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Abstract

With modern undulators generating light of an arbitrary polarization state, experiments exploiting this feature in the soft X-ray region are becoming increasingly widespread. Circularly polarized light in the soft X-ray region is of particular interest to investigate of magnetic metals such as Fe, Co and Ni, and the rare earths. A versatile multilayer polarimeter has been designed and developed to characterize the polarization state of the soft X-ray beam. A W/B4C multilayer transmission phase retarder and reflection analyser has been used for polarimetry measurements on the beamline (I06) at Diamond Light Source. The design details of the polarimeter and preliminary polarimetry results are presented.

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Diamond Light Source Proceedings , Volume 1 , Issue SRMS-7 , October 2010 , e116
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Copyright © Diamond Light Source Ltd 2010

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