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1Department of Physics and Astronomy,University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002, USA.
Applied Optics
|January 12, 2010
Abstract:
The stray light in a commercial Czerny-Turner grating spectrometer has been investigated at wavelength readings between 1800 A and 5000 A. A simple method is described which eliminates that part of the stray light caused by multiple dispersions. This same method should also decrease stray light in other in-plane grating spectrometers with reflecting optics.
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