Slab waveguide spatial heterodyne spectrometers for remote sensing from space

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7356, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Florjańczyk, Mirosław ^a,b   Cheben, Pavel ^b   Janz, Siegfried ^b   Lamontagne, Boris ^b   Lapointe, Jean ^b   Scott, Alan ^a,c   Solheim, Brian ^a   Xu, Dan Xia ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c COM DEV Ltd ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Fourier spectroscopy; Optical circuits; Spectrometers; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

FOURIER SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TECHNIQUES; HIGH RESOLUTION; MICRO-SATELLITE PLATFORMS; MINIATURE SPECTROMETER; MULTI-APERTURE SPECTROMETER; OPTICAL CIRCUITS; OPTICAL THROUGHPUT; PLANAR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICON ON INSULATOR WAVEGUIDE; SINGLE MODE; SLAB WAVEGUIDES; SPATIAL HETERODYNE;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; OPTICAL SENSORS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETRY; WAVEGUIDES;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 70350062341     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.820924     Document Type: Conference Paper

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