Characterization of the transverse coherence of hard synchrotron radiation by intensity interferometry

Phys Rev Lett. 2001 Oct 1;87(14):140801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.140801. Epub 2001 Sep 14.

Abstract

The transverse coherence of x rays was measured with an intensity interferometer using a 120-microeV-bandwidth monochromator operating at 14.41 keV. By analyzing the transverse coherence profiles, a vertical source profile of a 25-m long undulator of SPring-8, as well as the coherence degradation by a phase object in the beam path, were quantitatively characterized.