Spectroscopic Principle Wedge Filter
Linearly variable filters, also called wedge filters are special optical interference filters with a shift of the spectral characteristics along one axis of the filter. A wedge-filter spectrometer 1 comprises means 10 for spectrally dispersing an incident radiation beam comprising a first plurality of layers of high (H) index of refraction material and a second plurality of layers of low (L) index of refraction material, individual ones of the H and the L layers. LESIA (Laboratoire d'Etudes Spatiales et d'Instrumentation en Astrophysique, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon) has an extensive experience in visible and infrared imaging spectrometry with several instruments onboard planetary space missions (MarsExpress/OMEGA, VenusExpress/VIRTIS, Rosetta/VIRTIS).
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