Echelle spectrometer arrangement using internal predispersion

US8681329B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Leibniz-Institut Für Analytische Wissenschaften-ISAS-e.V. · DE

Inventors

• Helmut Becker-Roβ · Berlin, DE
• Stefan Florek · Berlin, DE
• Michael Okruss · Potsdam, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 25, 2010
• Grant date: Mar 25, 2014
• Expiry date: Nov 9, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01J2003/1828
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An Echelle spectrometer arrangement (10) with internal order separation contains an Echelle grating (34) and a dispersing element (38) for order separation so that a two-dimensional spectrum having a plurality of separate orders (56) can be generated, an imagine optical system (18, 22, 28, 46), a flat-panel detector (16), and predispersion means (20) for predispersing the radiation into the direction of traverse dispersion of the dispersion element (38). The arrangement is characterized in that the predispersion means (20) comprise a predispersion element which is arranged along the optical path behind the inlet spacing (12) inside the spectrometer arrangement. The imaging optical system is designed in such a manner that the predispersed radiation can be imaged onto an additional image plane (24) which does not have any boundaries in the predispersion direction and which is arranged along the optical path between the predispersion element (20) and the echelle grating (34). Optical means (20, 68) in the area of the predispersed spectrum are arranged to influence the spatial and/or the spectral beam density distribution on the detector (16).