Development of a facility for high accuracy and precision characterization of Micro-Pore Optics collimators

Alessio Nuti; Francesco Ceraudo; Giovanni Della Casa; Ettore Del Monte; Giuseppe Dilillo; Yuri Evangelista; Marco Feroci; Giovanni Lombardi

doi:10.1117/12.3020262

21 August 2024 Development of a facility for high accuracy and precision characterization of Micro-Pore Optics collimators

Alessio Nuti, Francesco Ceraudo, Giovanni Della Casa, Ettore Del Monte, Giuseppe Dilillo, Yuri Evangelista, Marco Feroci, Giovanni Lombardi

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Proceedings Volume 13093, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 130936V (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020262
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

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The Large Area Detector (LAD) is a narrow field-of-view instrument concept proposed for the eXTP X-ray space astronomy mission. With a substantial active area exceeding 3m² at 8 keV, the LAD cannot rely on traditional grazing-incidence focusing X-ray optics. Instead, it uses an array of lightweight collimator plates matched to the sensors, employing lead-glass Micro-Pore Optics (MPO) technology to limit the field of view. To support the development of the LAD instrument, a dedicated X-ray facility was designed and constructed at the INAF-IAPS laboratories in Rome for the study and characterization of collimators. This facility is capable of measuring the collimator plates’ point-by-point angular response about different axes at several energies with an accuracy of 1′. Additionally, the facility includes a software pipeline that manages the measurements without constant user supervision, enabling thorough testing of large batches of collimator samples.

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Alessio Nuti, Francesco Ceraudo, Giovanni Della Casa, Ettore Del Monte, Giuseppe Dilillo, Yuri Evangelista, Marco Feroci, and Giovanni Lombardi "Development of a facility for high accuracy and precision characterization of Micro-Pore Optics collimators", Proc. SPIE 13093, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 130936V (21 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020262

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