Abstract
Basic properties of whispering gallery mirrors in the soft x-ray region are considered. The following applications of whispering gallery optics are discussed: increasing the utilization efficiency of point source radiation, deflecting a synchrotron radiation beam to the vertical plane and transporting it to another horizontal level, resonators for soft x-ray lasers, and using the whispering gallery effect to investigate the roughness of concave surfaces.
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