Compact prism spectrographs based on aplanatic principles

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1174-1182

  Warren, David W ^a,b   Hackwell, John A ^b   Gutierrez, David J ^b  

^a International Society for Optics and Photonics   (United States)

^b AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Aplanatic; Astronomy; Cryogenic; Detector array; Infrared; Ozone; Prism; Remote sensing; Spectrograph; Ultraviolet

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010869208     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601237     Document Type: Article

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