Compact high-resolution spaceborne echelle grating spectrometer with acousto-optical tunable filter based order sorting for the infrared domain from 2.2 to 4.3μm

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 5191-5206

  Nevejans, Dennis ^a   Neefs, Eddy ^a   Van Ransbeeck, Emiel ^a   Berkenbosch, Sophie ^a   Clairquin, Roland ^a   De Vos, Lieve ^b   Moelans, Wouter ^b   Glorieux, Stijn ^b   Baeke, Ann ^b   Korablev, Oleg ^c   Vinogradov, Imant ^c   Kalinnikov, Yuri ^d   Bach, Benny ^e   Dubois, Jean Pierre ^f   Villard, Eric ^f  

^a BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^b OIP Sensor Systems   (Belgium)

^c Space Research Institute ^*  (Russian Federation)

^d AFAR   (Russian Federation)

^e Bach Research Corporation   (United States)

^f SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPECTROMETERS;

ACOUSTOOPTICAL TUNABLE FILTERS; ECHELLE GRATING; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 33748702287     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.005191     Document Type: Article

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