Visual demonstration of the performance of the diffraction grating. The zeroth order transmission refers to light that goes straight through the grating without undergoing diffraction (which should be ...

Imaging spectrometers represent a critical advancement in optical instrumentation, integrating high‐precision optical components with innovative design architectures to capture both spatial and ...

Spectrometer optics involves measuring light intensity by means of a specialized analytical tool called a spectrometer which separates light by wavelength. Spectrometers are used for a variety of ...

UCLA physics and astronomy professor Ian McLean has been selected to receive the American Astronomical Society’s 2017 Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation, which is given for ...

Paris – The Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy in Bonn, Germany, has built a 40-MHz digital fast Fourier transform spectrometer that it claims will greatly improve the performance and cost of ...