Research and Facilities
Technology to manipulate
high-energy light
Collaboration began in 2000 with the optics development group at Riken Harima Branch, where we successfully developed the world’s highest-performance X-ray microscope concentrator probe. The results of this collaboration are now being disseminated worldwide.
A mecca for the development of synchrotron radiation optical devices
using our in-house-developed nano processing and measuring methodologies.
Surfaces constructed from terraces that are flat at the atomic level and with the minimum crystallographic steps possible. Creating these extremely flat surfaces allows us to achieve ultra-precision X-ray optical devices.
Creating an X-ray free electron laser (SACLA)
with 50 nm focusing system
A new two-stage optical focus system was developed specifically for the SACLA compact X-ray-free electron laser. The first focusing mirror expands the beam size, with the final stage achieving the 50 nm focusing system based on a sufficient operating distance. With peak energy approaching 1020W/cm2, the creation of this optical device is helping to open up the new field of non-linear optics in the X-ray spectrum.
Using SPring-8 to achieve
the world’s highest-resolution X-ray microscope.
Measure wavefront error in situ and develop a new upstream wavefront correction mirror World-first introduction of an adaptive optics device in an X-ray microscope to achieve the smallest X-ray probe yet developed, at 7 nm.
