TY - JOUR AU - Trost, Fabian AU - Bielecki, Johan AU - Bean, Richard TI - Temporal pulse shaping aspects of refractive X-ray lenses JO - Journal of synchrotron radiation VL - 33 IS - 1 SN - 0909-0495 CY - Chester PB - IUCr M1 - PUBDB-2026-00798 SP - 52 - 62 PY - 2026 AB - Refractive X-ray lenses are frequently used components at modern X-ray free-electron laser facilities. This work investigates the temporal effects of refractiveoptics on ultra-short X-ray pulses, particularly focusing on pulse elongation. Wepresent a model using full Fresnel theory to study the beam profile at the focusin space and time. Refractive X-ray lenses not only change the temporalstructure of the pulse, the focus size is also dependent on the incoming pulseduration. Further, we present a simplified ray-tracing model to estimate thepulse stretching effect of compound refractive lenses (CRLs), which we find tobe dependent only on the dispersion and the absorption of the CRL materia LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 DO - DOI:10.1107/S1600577525008975 UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/646275 ER -