Use of computer simulation to characterize interferometer performance

Paul E. Thurlow

doi:10.1117/12.22837

1 November 1990 Use of computer simulation to characterize interferometer performance

Paul E. Thurlow

Proceedings Volume 1334, Current Developments in Optical Engineering IV; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.22837
Event: 34th Annual International Technical Symposium on Optical and Optoelectronic Applied Science and Engineering, 1990, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Computer simulation has become a useful tool in the design, testing, and evaluation of Michelson-type interferometric spectrometers. Although the general characteristics of these instruments can be evaluated using standard textbook algorithms1 ,2 it is difficult to estimate spectral accuracy for non-ideal instruments experiencing one or multiple operational perturbations. Relatively simple computer simulation techniques enable display of recovered spectra for both ideal and multiply-perturbed instruments, thereby affording the evaluator a preview of spectral accuracy as a function of the instrument's design and operating parameters.

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Paul E. Thurlow "Use of computer simulation to characterize interferometer performance", Proc. SPIE 1334, Current Developments in Optical Engineering IV, (1 November 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.22837

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