Investigating the limits of hard X-ray coherence length measurement employing Young's double slit experiment.

Young's double slit experiment has been the most explored technique to gauge a system's coherence properties. The limits of this technique in characterizing spatial coherence properties of high emittance, hard X-ray synchrotron sources have been performed at the BXDS-IVU beamline, Canadian Light Source (CLS). High emittance synchrotron sources have been assumed to possess sub-optimal coherence properties.

The High Energy diffraction beamline at the Canadian Light Source.

The design, performance, and capabilities of the High Energy beamline at the Brockhouse Sector of the Canadian Light Source are described. The beamline uses a single bent silicon wafer as a side-bounce Laue monochromator, using the (111), (422), or (533) hkl reflections to access energies ranging from 25 to 90 keV. The cryogenically cooled crystal serves as the only optical element in the beamline providing a simple, convenient, and reliable configuration.

A novel means to generate high pressure.

Diamond anvil cells are the most popular means of generating pressures above 2 GPa. However, in many experiments, such as nuclear magnetic resonance and x-ray absorption, the metallic pressurizing gasket (which confines much of the sample) represents an occluding barrier that requires a low Z gasket material (e.g.