Synchrotron
Beamline Optical Systems
for Scientific Research or Industrial R&D
Whether it is for scientific research or industrial R&D, X-ray beamlines are powerful, highly sought after tools. To deliver the highest possible level of service and continue to drive new advances, beamline managers have to ensure optimal beam stability, dimensions, shape, and homogeneity. The success of their users’ experiments depends on it.
IRELEC has been designing and building X-ray mirror systems since the early 90s and today supplies the systems of choice for latest-generation sources like the MAX IV, NSLS II, ESRF-EBS, and European XFEL.
Mechanical Mirror Benders
Mechanical benders focus the X-ray beam down to sub-micrometer dimensions and provide the flexibility needed to manage component-induced optical errors and correct thermal-induced errors, making them key contributors to X-ray beamline uptime and reliability.
IRELEC integrates super-polished mirrors into these systems without altering their initial optical quality. Fine mechanics and specially developed metrology routines are used to produce single-crystal silicon mirrors with nanometer resolution.
IRELEC’s advantages
- Fine control of the bent shape allows optimal tuning for high-quality X-ray beams
- Twist-free elliptical, parabolic, and cylindrical shapes
- Insensitive to temperature variations
- Calibrated and accurate push-and-pull actuators compensate for long-period slope error, minimizing beam spot striation effect at the sample position when operating the beamline in defocused mode
Pre-focusing Mirror Systems
When it comes to mirror systems, off-the-shelf solutions often fall short, and beamline managers have to make compromises detrimental to reliability and performance.
At IRELEC, we are technology agnostic. Your needs are the starting point for custom solutions based on our portfolio of tested and validated technologies to focus on the features most important to you.
IRELEC’s advantages
- High axis independence
- Fixed shape or curved mirror(s)
- Fine tuning using piezo actuators
- High-efficiency cooling system
- Custom designs for HV and UHV chambers
- High duty-cycle translation stages
Custom KB Systems
KB systems, characterized by a simple, highly stable design, focus the beam in both directions. When combined with dynamically figured mirrors, these systems enable a variety of optical configurations.
IRELEC custom KB systems are ideal for beamlines seeking the best tradeoff between flexibility and performance.
IRELEC’s advantages
- HFM and VFM with sensibly different sizes
- All focusing configurations (upwards, downwards, sidewards)
- Specific and independent translation and rotation stages for optimum stability and high precision
- Specific geometry for vacuum chambers adapted to the constraints of the experimental station
Compact KB Systems
On some beamlines, space near the experimental station is limited. And for some experiments, the focusing optics need to be as close to the sample as possible. Bulky KB systems cannot be used in these situations.
IRELEC developed a compact KB system with the same features as our custom KB systems to meet these needs.
IRELEC’s advantages
- Highly compact with limited footprint
- Fully UHV compatible
- Backlash-free high precision individual pitch rotation stages
- Optional translation stages for multi-stripe mirrors
Double Multilayer Monochromators
IRELEC offers tailor-made design of Double Multilayer Monochromators, with fixed exit, water cooled mirrors and highly precised adjustment of the Bragg angle.
The design architecture with in-air motion stages and natural granite stand is “beamline operation” oriented to simplify daily operation and allow the best stability.
IRELEC’s advantages
- Optimized mirrors support and cooling scheme for ultimate stability
- Backlash-free and crosstalk-free motion system
- Custom design adapted to beamline constraints: fixed exit or pseudo channel-cut geometry
Beamline Components
IRELEC is also offering beamline components, such as:
- Slit and imaging systems
- Photon shutters
- X-ray beam attenuators
- In-vacuum precision actuators
- In-vacuum precision switches
Datasheets
UHV precision electrical switches
Monochromatic slits
X-ray Attenuator System
UHV linear actuators
Testimonial
Case Studies Synchrotrons
KB system for LRL-CAT beamline