The prime focus imaging spectrograph for the Southern African Large Telescope: Operational modes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1634-1644

  Kobulnicky, Henry A ^a   Nordsieck, Kenneth H ^a   Burgh, Eric B ^a   Smith, Michael P ^a   Percival, Jeffrey W ^a   Williams, Ted B ^b   O'Donoghue, Darragh ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Astronomical spectrographs; Fabry Perot interferometry; Near ultraviolet spectroscopy; Optical design; Spectropolarimetry; Volume phase holographic gratings

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; HOLOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL DESIGN; POLARIMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY; TELESCOPES;

IMAGING SPECTROGRAPHS;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 0038184198     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460315     Document Type: Conference Paper

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