Optimum design of a grazing-incidence flat-field spectrograph with a spherical varied-line-space grating

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 2743-2748

  Harada, Tatsuo ^a   Takahashi, Kaoru ^a,b   Sakuma, Hideo ^a   Osyczka, Andrzej ^a,c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUJI XEROX CO LTD   (Japan)

^c CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

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EID: 0001541009     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.002743     Document Type: Article

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