A volume-phase holographic spectrograph for the Magellan telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4485, Issue , 2002, Pages 453-459

  Bernstein, G M ^a   Athey, A ^a   Bernstein, R A ^a,b   Gunnels, S M ^c   Richstone, D O ^a   Shectman, S A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^c Paragon Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Spectrograph; Volume phase holographic gratings

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; DETECTORS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; EFFICIENCY; HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENTS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COATINGS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTIMIZATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMISSION; LITTROW CONFIGURATION; MAGELLAN TELESCOPE; VOLUME PHASE HOLOGRAPHIC SPECTROGRAPH;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 0036394950     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.454281     Document Type: Article

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