Design of a high-throughput grazing-incidence flat-field spectrometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 2000, Pages 4000-4006

  Poletto, Luca ^a   Tondello, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DETECTORS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN;

FLAT-FIELD FOCUSING;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 0000832295     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.004000     Document Type: Article

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