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To: Starlight who wrote (4284)	12/2/1997 6:03:00 PM
From: Michael Dunn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9695

<<To answer the question about collimators -- it is a device used to "focus" x-rays onto a specific point -- sort of like a magnifying lens focuses light coming through it onto one spot and intensifies it so that it becomes hot enough to start a fire. Since XRL does not use optical lenses to focus light, the collimator focuses the x-rays.>> Typically a collimator does not focus the x-rays down to a point it collimates them. The two definitions for collimate that I found are: 1.) to make straight 2.) to make (as light rays) parallel Collimators are very often used in the "optical regime". They are just more difficult to make for X-rays. Mike