Digital array scanned interferometer
First Claim
1. In an interferometer having means to process light from a light source to produce a fringe pattern of interfering light (interferogram) in a focal plane, the improvement comprising optic means to image the field of view onto a detector, the detector comprising a two-dimensional, semi-conductor array detector, said detector having means to detect the light intensity of said interferogram along both axes of said two-dimensional array.
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Abstract
An interferometer with a cylindrical lens which produces an interferogram imaging the field of view in the redundant coordinate onto a photon noise limited detector comprising a charge-coupled device or CCD having pixels aligned along two dimensions to provide spatial resolution in that dimension of the light source as well as spectral resolution. The CCD is also characterized by greater dynamic range, lower pixel response variation, and is photon noise limited, all of which enhances its use as a detector for a spectrometer.
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- 1. In an interferometer having means to process light from a light source to produce a fringe pattern of interfering light (interferogram) in a focal plane, the improvement comprising optic means to image the field of view onto a detector, the detector comprising a two-dimensional, semi-conductor array detector, said detector having means to detect the light intensity of said interferogram along both axes of said two-dimensional array.
- 6. In an interferometer having means to process light from a light source to produce a fringe pattern of interfering light (interferogram) in a focal plane, and a detector positioned at an image plane having means to detect the varying intensity of the interferogram, the improvement comprising optic means to image the field of view in one dimension onto the detector to thereby preserve the spatial information of the field of view in said one dimension.
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