Abstract
A spectral imager constructs a three-dimensional (two spatial and one spectral) image from a series of two-dimensional images. We discuss a technique for spectral imaging that multiplexes the spatial and spectral information on a staring focal plane and then demultiplexes the resulting imagery to obtain the spectral image. The spectral image consists of spatial pixels and 25 spectral bands. The current implementation operates over the 3–5-μm band, but can easily be applied to other spectral regions. This approach to spectral imaging has high optical throughput and is robust to focal plane array nonuniformities. A hardware description, the mathematical development, and experimental results are presented.
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