Echelle Efficiency And Blaze Characteristics

M. Bottema

doi:10.1117/12.965652

10 February 1981 Echelle Efficiency And Blaze Characteristics

M. Bottema

Proceedings Volume 0240, Periodic Structures, Gratings, Moire Patterns, and Diffraction Phenomena I; (1981) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.965652
Event: 24th Annual Technical Symposium, 1980, San Diego, United States

Abstract

On the basis of a simple model for diffraction by the groove, we show that the efficiency of an echelle is high in the Littrow arrangement, but becomes markedly less if the angle of deviation between the incident and the diffracted beams is increased. We also show that the height and width of the spectral image change if the directions of incidence and diffraction are interchanged, but that the efficiency remains the same. In general, the direction of maximum efficiency does not coincide with the blaze direction, defined as the maximum of the envelope of the diffracted-light distribution function. The difference depends on the mode of operation of the spectrograph (scanned or stationary spectrum) and typically changes from a fraction of a degree at high orders in the UV to several degrees at low orders in the IR. Experimental evidence agrees qualitatively with these calculations, but a more refined diffraction model may be needed for a quantitative interpretation.

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M. Bottema "Echelle Efficiency And Blaze Characteristics", Proc. SPIE 0240, Periodic Structures, Gratings, Moire Patterns, and Diffraction Phenomena I, (10 February 1981); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.965652

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