Abstract

Wave propagation equations in the stationary-phase approximation have been used to identify the theoretical bounds of a miniature holographic Fourier-transform spectrometer (HFTS). It is demonstrated that the HFTS throughput can be larger than for a scanning Fourier-transform spectrometer. Given room- or a higher-temperature constraint, a small HFTS has the potential to outperform a small multichannel dispersive spectrograph with the same resolving power because of the size dependence of the signal-to-noise ratio. These predictions are used to analyze the performance of a miniature HFTS made from simple optical components covering a broad spectral range from the UV to the near IR. The importance of specific primary aberrations in limiting the HFTS performance has been both identified and verified.

© 2004 Optical Society of America

Compact liquid-crystal-polymer Fourier-transform spectrometer

Gerben Boer, Patrick Ruffieux, Toralf Scharf, Peter Seitz, and René Dändliker
Appl. Opt. 43(11) 2201-2208 (2004)

High-performance nonscanning Fourier-transform spectrometer that uses a Wollaston prism array

Dan Komisarek, Karl Reichard, Dan Merdes, Dan Lysak, Philip Lam, Shudong Wu, and Shizhuo Yin
Appl. Opt. 43(20) 3983-3988 (2004)

Multichannel Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer

Mamoru Hashimoto and Satoshi Kawata
Appl. Opt. 31(28) 6096-6101 (1992)

Development of a multichannel Fourier transform spectrometer

Noboru Ebizuka, Moriaki Wakaki, Yukiyasu Kobayashi, and Syuji Sato
Appl. Opt. 34(34) 7899-7906 (1995)

Lamellar grating optimization for miniaturized fourier transform spectrometers

Onur Ferhanoglu, Hüseyin R. Seren, Stephan Lüttjohann, and Hakan Urey
Opt. Express 17(23) 21289-21301 (2009)