The prime focus imaging spectrograph for the Southern African large telescope: Optical design

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1463-1471

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FOCUSING; HOLOGRAPHIC INTERFEROMETRY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED SPECTROGRAPHS; OPTICAL DESIGN;

LARGE TELESCOPES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038522869     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460312     Document Type: Conference Paper

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