MULTI-CHANNEL, MULTI-SPECTRUM IMAGING SPECTROMETER

摘要

A multi-spectrum, multi-channel imaging spectrometer includes two or more input slits or other input for each input channel. The input slits are vertically and horizontally displaced from each other. The vertical displacements cause spectra from the channels to be vertically displaced on a single image sensor on a stationary image plane. The horizontal displacements cause light beams from the input channels to strike a convex grating at different incidence angles and produce separate spectra having different spectral ranges. A retroflective spectrometer includes a convex grating that, by diffraction, disperses wavelengths of light at different angles and orders approximately back along an incident light beam. A single concave mirror reflects both the input channel and the dispersed spectrum. A prism, set of mirrors, beam splitters or other optical element(s) folds the input channel(s) of a spectrometer to enable the input(s) to be moved away from the plan of the image sensor.