Breadboard of a fourier-transform spectrometer for the radiation explorer in the far infrared atmospheric mission

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 2870-2878

  Palchetti, Luca ^a   Bianchini, Giovanni ^a   Castagnoli, Francesco ^a   Carli, Bruno ^a   Serio, Carmine ^b   Esposito, Francesco ^b   Cuomo, Vincenzo ^c   Rizzi, Rolando ^d   Maestri, Tiziano ^d  

^a IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; DATA ACQUISITION; INFRARED RADIATION; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VACUUM;

BREADBOARD; OPTICAL LAYOUT; RADIATION EXPLORER IN THE FAR INFRARED (REFIR); SPECTRAL REGIONS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 19944415278     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.002870     Document Type: Article

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