Compact static fourier transform spectrometer with a large field of view based on liquid–crystal technology

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1400-1407

  Boer, Gerben ^a   Scharf, Toralf ^b   Dändliker, René ^b  

^a Centre Suisse d Electronique et Microtechnique SA Zürich   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER OPTICS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PRISMS; THROUGHPUT;

FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETERS;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 0036507817     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.001400     Document Type: Article

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