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I'm guessing this produces more power than a diagnostic x-ray machine by many orders of magnitude? The article talks about a 250 Watt source needed.
by kristianp 10y ago
I'm guessing this produces more power than a diagnostic x-ray machine by many orders of magnitude? The article talks about a 250 Watt source needed.
- wycx 10y agoYou don't need that many photons for a diagnostic imaging machine since they typically use hard x-rays (20-70 keV) that are very penetrating. Very soft x-rays/EUV is amongst the hardest regions in which to work as the photons are just the right energy to be strongly absorbed by most materials, so as the article states, losses to the optics are significant, i.e. you lose ~half your photons in every mirror.