Interferometric measurement of the modulation transfer function of a spectrometer by using spectral modulations

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 660-665

  Kumar, V Nirmal ^a,b   Rao, D Narayana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^b University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIGHT MODULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER; SINUSOIDALLY MODULATED SPECTRUM; SPECTRAL MODULATION; WHITE LIGHT;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0033074283     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.000660     Document Type: Article

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