Abstract

A simple method of photoelectrically scanning a Fabry-Perot interferometer pattern is described. Scanning is accomplished by parallel displacement of the incident beam of light across the face of an interferometer whose plate separation varies in the direction of the displacement. This method of scanning allows a slightly distorted plot of the line profile to be continuously displayed on an oscilloscope.

© 1961 Optical Society of America

Rapid-Scan Spectroscopy with a Fabry-Perot Interferometer*†

R. W. Terhune and C. W. Peters
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 51(5) 530-534 (1961)

Double-Passed Fabry-Perot Interferometer

P. Hariharan and D. Sen
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 51(4) 398-399 (1961)

Pressure-scanned three-pass Fabry-Perot interferometer

L. N. Durvasula and Robert W. Gammon
Appl. Opt. 17(20) 3298-3303 (1978)

On Automatic Parallelism Control in a Scanning Fabry-Perot Interferometer

C. F. Bruce
Appl. Opt. 5(9) 1447-1452 (1966)

A Rapid-Scanning Fabry-Perot Interferometer with Automatic Parallelism Control

J. V. Ramsay
Appl. Opt. 1(4) 411-413 (1962)