Optics of Spectroscopy Tutorial

lmlllmmlllmlllmlllmmmlmmmmlllmlmllmmllmllA TUTORIAL By J.M. Lerner and A. ThevenonTABLE OF CONTENTSSection 1:DIFFRACTION GRATINGS ­ RULED & HOLOGRAPHIC 1.1 Basic Equations 1.2 Angular Dispersion 1.3 Linear Dispersion 1.4 Wavelength and Order 1.5 Resolving "Power" 1.6 Blazed Gratings 1.6.1 Littrow Condition 1.6.2 Efficiency Profiles 1.6.3 Efficiency and Order 1.7 Diffraction Grating Stray Light 1.7.1 Scattered Light 1.7.2 Ghosts 1.8 Choice of Gratings 1.8.1 When to Choose a Holographic Grating 1.8.2 When to Choose a Ruled Grating Section 2:MONOCHROMATORS & SPECTROGRAPHS 2.1 Basic Designs 2.2 Fastie­Ebert Configuration 2.3 Czerny­Turner Configuration 2.4 Czerny­Turner/Fastie­Ebert PGS Aberrations 2.4.1 Aberration Correcting Plane Gratings 2.5 Concave Aberration Corrected Holographic Gratings 2.6 Calculating alpha and beta in a Monochromator Configuration 2.7 Monochromator System Optics 2.8 Aperture Stops and Entrance and Exit Pupils 2.9 Aperture Ratio (f/value,F.Number),and Numerical Aperture (NA) 2.9.1 f/value of a Lens System 2.9.2 f/value of a Spectrometer 2.9.3 Magnification and Flux Density 2.10 Exit Slit Width and Anamorphism 2.11 Slit Height Magnification 2.12 Bandpass and Resolution 2.12.1 Influence of the Slits 2.12.2 Influence of Diffraction 2.12 ...