Micro-interferometer with high throughput for remote sensing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7208, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Scott, Alan ^a,b   Florjańczyk, Miroslaw ^b,c   Cheben, Pavel ^c   Janz, Siegfried ^c   Solheim, Brian ^b   Xu, Dan Xia ^c  

^a COM DEV Ltd ^*  (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fourier spectroscopy; Remote sensing; Spectrometers; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL TECHNIQUES; FOURIER SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TECHNIQUES; FRONT END; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT; MICRO-SATELLITE PLATFORMS; NON-UNIFORMITIES; OPTICAL THROUGHPUT; PLANAR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SINGLE MODE; SPATIAL HETERODYNE; WAVEGUIDE FABRICATION; WAVEGUIDE SPECTROMETERS;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 67649202875     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.808271     Document Type: Conference Paper

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