Highly achromatic Fourier-transform spectrometer

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1361-1368

  Winters, David G ^a   Schlup, Philip ^a   Bartels, Randy A ^a  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; COHERENT LIGHT; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASERS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

BEAM SIZE; OCTAVE SPANNING SPECTRUM; SOURCES OF ERROR; SPLIT-MIRROR CONFIGURATION;

INFRARED SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 33846861341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.001361     Document Type: Article

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