Combination of two Fabry-Pérot etalons and a grating spectrograph for imaging polarimetry of the Sun

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7014, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kleint, Lucia ^a,c   Feller, Alex ^b   Bianda, Michele ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c Istituto Ricerche Solari Locarno   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fabry P rot interferometer; Instrumentation; Spectrograph spectropolarimetry Sun

Indexed keywords

GRATING SPECTROGRAPH; IMAGING POLARIMETER; IMAGING POLARIMETRY; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; MONOCHROMATIC IMAGES; NARROW BANDS; SPECTRAL REGION; SPECTRAL TRANSMISSION; SPECTROPOLARIMETRY;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; ETALONS; INSTRUMENTS; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETERS; SUN;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 66249143773     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.787923     Document Type: Conference Paper

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