ABSTRACT
The performance of a multilayer coated diffraction grating has been evaluated at EUV wavelengths both in terms of absolute efficiency and spectral resolution. The application of a ten-layer Ir/Si multilayer coating to a 3600-lines/mm blazed toroidal replica grating produced a factor of 9 enhancement in peak efficiency near the design wavelength approximately 30 nm in first order, without degrading its excellent quasistigmatic spectral resolution. The measured EUV efficiency peaked at 3.3% and was improved over the full spectral range between 25 and 35 nm compared with the premultilayer replica which had a standard gold coating. In addition, the grating's spectral resolution of >5000 was maintained.
ABSTRACT
Performance of multilayer coated diffraction gratings has been evaluated in the extreme UV. The application of multilayer coatings to two blazed gratings has produced a significant enhancement in grating efficiency in the 300-A spectral region in first order.
