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XOP on-line documentation


XOP 2.1 comes with a new on-line application built with the idea of helping the users in choosing the right applications from the XOP collection and access quicker the on-line documentation of the individual aplications.

Access to on-line documentation file (some links may not work in this web version).

General XOP's References


  • M. Sánchez del Río and R. J. Dejus." XOP 2.1: A new version of the X-ray optics software toolkit " Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation: Eighth International Conference, edited by T. Warwick et al. (2004) Americal Institute of Physics, pags 784-787. (Get PDF preprint.)
  • M. Sánchez del Río and R. J. Dejus." XOP: Recent developments " SPIE proceedings 3448 (1998). (Get PDF preprint.)
  • M. Sánchez del Río and R. J. Dejus. " XOP: A Multiplatform Graphical User Interface for Synchrotron Radiation Spectral and Optics Calculations " SPIE proceedings vol. 3152, pag 148-157, 1997. (Get PDF preprint.)
  • Roger J. Dejus and Manuel Sanchez del Rio, "XOP: A graphical user interface for spectral calculations and x-ray optics utilities", Rev. Sci. Instrum. 67(9) 1996 Proceedings of the conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation '95. (Get PDF reprint.)
Particular references (specific for describing and using some of the XOP applications) :
  • XCRYSTAL AND XCRYSTAL_BENT APPLICATIONS:
    M. Sánchez del Río,C. Ferrero and V. Mocella " Computer simulations of bent perfect crystal diffraction profiles " SPIE proceedings vol. 3152, 1997. (Get PDF preprint.)
  • XAID extension:
    M. Sanchez del Rio. "XAID: a package for XAFS data analysis based on IDL" J. Phys. IV, Coll C2-209 1997. (Get PDF preprint.)

Slide show

XOP tutorial


One efficient way to learn how to use XOP and SHADOW is to follow a number of practical exercises. They illustrate the different problems that XOP and SHADOW can tackle, practical information of how to introduce the inputs in XOP, and the solution to the exercises. In addition, the input files for XOP are also available, which could be very useful to reproduce the solutions on your computer. The material of the tutorial consists of:

How to proceed:
  • Install XOP and the extension SHADOWVUI (follow XOP Download instructions).
  • Download all the tutorial material packed in a single file: XopTutorial.zip (Windows) or XopTutorial.tar.Z (Unix).
  • Unpack the file into a new directory
  • For an easy access to the input files, copy the files under the InputFiles_xop+shadow and InputFiles_xplot directories to your XOP current directory (current directory in Unix and default directory c:\"Program Files"\xop2.0\tmp in Windows).
  • Open XOP and/or SHADOWVUI and load and run the corresponding files for the exercises.