Long-wave infrared spectral imager with an 8-cm-1 passband acousto-optic tunable filter

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2005, Pages

  Gupta, Neelam ^a   Suhre, Dennis R ^b   Gottlieb, Milton ^b  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acousto optics; Filtering; Imaging; Infrared; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; DIFFRACTION; INFRARED IMAGING; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FILTERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTO-OPTIC TUNABLE FILTER; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING SYSTEM; LONG-WAVE INFRARED SPECTRAL IMAGER; PIXEL-LIMITED RESOLUTION;

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 32344436709     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2048755     Document Type: Article

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