title: [Effect of spectrum distortion on modulation transfer function in imaging fiber-optic spectrometer].
abstract: Imaging fiber bundles were introduced to dispersion imaging spectrometer and substituted for slit, connecting the telescope and spectrometer to yield the imaging fiber-optic spectrometer. It is a double sampling system, the misalignment between image of optical fiber and detector pixel has arisen because of the spectrum distortion of spectrometer, which affected the second sampling process, and the modulation transfer function (MTF) therefore degraded. Optical transfer function of sampling process was derived from line spread function. The effect of spectrum distortion on system MTF was analyzed, and a model evaluating the MTF of imaging fiber-optic spectrometer was developed. Compared to the computation model of MTF of slit imaging spectrometer, a MTF item of sampling by optical fiber and a MTF item of misalignment arising from spectrum distortion were added in this model. Employing this, the MTF of an airborne imaging fiber-optic spectrometer for visible near infrared band was evaluated. The approach ro deriving and developing the MTF model has a reference signification for the computation of MTF of double sampling system, which can direct the design of imaging fiber-optic spectrometer also.
authors.affiliation: Changchun Institute of Optics Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China. chengxin0301214@163.com
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Bao
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yong-Feng
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Hong