Tunable, all-reflective spatial heterodyne spectrometer for broadband spectral line studies in the visible and near-ultraviolet

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 4227-4238

  Dawson, Olivia R ^a   Harris, Walter M ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETERODYNING;

INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS; NEAR ULTRAVIOLET; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SPATIAL HETERODYNE; SPATIAL SAMPLING; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; VALIDATION PROGRAM;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 68149149852     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.004227     Document Type: Article

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