Optical design of a double pass cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph for extremely high precision extrasolar planet trackers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7440, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Zhao, Bo ^a   Ge, Jian ^a   Groot, John ^a   Chang, Liang ^a  

^a 211 Bryant Space Science Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

cross dispersion; double pass spectrograph; Echelle; prism

Indexed keywords

COLLIMATED BEAMS; CROSS-DISPERSION; DOUBLE PASS; ECHELLE; ECHELLE SPECTROGRAPH; EXTRA SOLAR PLANETS; HIGH PRECISION; PIXEL SIZE; RADIAL VELOCITY; RESOLVING POWER; SPHERICAL SURFACE; WORKING MODE;

DISPERSIONS; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL DESIGN; PRISMS;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 78149238321     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.825691     Document Type: Conference Paper

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