Abstract

A phenomenon is described in which the size of the exit-slit image of the entrance slit is influenced by the angle at which an echelle grating is used. The phenomenon becomes significant only for large deviations from Littrow conditions. A mathematical treatment and experimental results are presented to show that proper exploitation of the effect results in simultaneous improvements in bandpass, range, and intensity for an echelle spectrometer.

© 1988 Optical Society of America

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