Topics

List of scientific and technological topics to be discussed at the IWXM 2024 workshop

• Fabrication and finishing technology for X-ray mirrors
• Metrology challenges for the characterization of X-ray optics
• Active and adaptive X-ray optics
• X-ray beam shaping, wave-front optimization and coherence preservation
• In-situ and at-wavelength metrology
• Wave-front characterization
• Measurement of spatial and temporal coherence
• Optics for ultra-short / ultra-intense pulses
• X-ray optics for astronomy
• Diffractive optical elements
• Crystals
• Coating materials
• Multilayer optics design and characterization
• Beamline performance and scientific results obtained by using novel optical schemes
• Specification of optics at diffraction limited storage ring and Free Electron Laser sources
• Simulation and data analysis
• Theoretical framework for describing source coherence, and the propagation of mutual coherence, along with analytical and numerical modelling
• Application of AI-methods for beamline performance optimization and operation