Compact Catadioptric Imaging Spectrometer Designs Utilizing Immersed Gratings

Patent · Mon Feb 27 23:00:00 EST 2006

OSTI ID:880178

Lerner, Scott A ^[1]

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1. Livermore, CA

An imaging spectrometer comprising an entrance slit for directing light, a lens that receives said light and reflects said light, a grating that defracts said light back onto said lens which focuses said light, and a detector array that receives said focused light. In one embodiment the grating has rulings immersed into a germanium surface.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• Assignee: The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, CA)
• Patent Number(s): US 7,006,217
• Application Number: 10/658141
• OSTI ID: 880178
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English