Patent ID: 11919264
Assignee: UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 11:
12. An x-ray refractive optical element comprising:
a substrate, the substrate providing mechanical support for the refractive optical element;
a resin deposited on a surface of the substrate; and
a polymer refractive optical element physically coupled to the substrate, the refractive optical element being formed by two-photon polymerization of the resin, the polymer refractive optical element having a first surface with a roughness of less than 100 nanometers and a second surface with a roughness of less than 100 nanometers with the first and second surfaces along an optical axis of the polymer refractive optical element, the optical axis being parallel to the substrate, and the polymer refractive optical element being configured to provide different focuses to transverse components of a beam propagating along the optical axis with the first surface being asymmetric to the second surface about the optical axis.