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Title: FABSOAR--A Fabry-Perot Spectrometer for Oxygen A-band Research Final Technical Report

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/988184· OSTI ID:988184

Because this was a Phase I project, it did not add extensively to the body of A-band knowledge. There was no basic research performed on that subject. The principal addition was that a mechanical and optical design for a triple-etalon Fabry-Perot interferometer (FABSOAR) capable of A-band sensing was sketched out and shown to be within readily feasible instrument fabrication parameters. The parameters for the proposed triple-etalon Fabry-Perot were shown to be very similar to existing Fabry-Perots built by Scientific Solutions. The mechanical design for the FABSOAR instrument incorporated the design of previous Scientific Solutions imagers, condensing the three three-inch-diameter etalons into a single, sturdy tube. The design allowed for the inclusion of a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) filter wheel and a thermocooled CCD detector from Andor. The tube has supports to mount to a horizontal or vertical opticaltable surface, and was to be coupled to a Scientific Solutions pointing head at the Millstone Hill Observatory in Massachusetts for Phase II calibration and testing.

Research Organization:
SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS, INC
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
SC0002585
OSTI ID:
988184
Report Number(s):
FABSOAR-final-1-091010
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English