title: Compact static imaging spectrometer combining spectral zooming capability with a birefringent interferometer.
abstract: A compact static birefringent imaging spectrometer (BIS) with spectral zooming capability is presented. It based on two identical Wollaston prisms and has no slit. The most significant advantage of the BIS is that we can conveniently select spectral resolution to adapt to different application requirements and greatly reduce the size of the spectral image data for capturing, saving, transferring, and processing. Also, we show this configuration blend the advantage of a grating spectrometer and a Michelson interferometer: extremely compact, robust, wide free spectral range and very high throughput.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China. jielixjtu@mail.xjtu.edu.cn
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jingping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Chun
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.forename: Chuanlin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Yunyao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hou
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D007368:Interferometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008904:Miniaturization; D057054:Molecular Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013057:Spectrum Analysis / Q000295:instrumentation*