Optics: measuring and testing – By dispersed light spectroscopy
Patent
1998-09-15
2000-08-08
Font, Frank G.
Optics: measuring and testing
By dispersed light spectroscopy
356303, 356305, 356328, G01J 300
Patent
active
061009741
ABSTRACT:
An imaging spectrometer has fore-optics coupled to a spectral resolving system with an entrance slit extending in a first direction at an imaging location of the fore-optics for receiving the image, a convex diffraction grating for separating the image into a plurality of spectra of predetermined wavelength ranges; a spectrometer array for detecting the spectra; and at least one concave sperical mirror concentric with the diffraction grating for relaying the image from the entrance slit to the diffraction grating and from the diffraction grating to the spectrometer array. In one embodiment, the spectrometer is configured in a lateral mode in which the entrance slit and the spectrometer array are displaced laterally on opposite sides of the diffraction grating in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. In another embodiment, the spectrometer is combined with a polychromatic imaging camera array disposed adjacent said entrance slit for recording said image.
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California Institute of Technology
Font Frank G.
Ratliff Reginald
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