Gretagmacbeth, LLC

Mcmahan Electro-optics, Incorporated

Robert K McMahan

Robert H Hart

Harold R Van Aken

William L Weber

Perry A Palumbo

A concentric spectrometer which reduces stray light and re-entrant spectra within the spectrometer. The spectrometer includes a non-direct optical path between the entrance slit assembly and exit aperture. Dyson and Offner concentric optical configurations are used to eliminate third-order aberrations The concentric optical system includes a light trap which mitigates or eliminate stray light due to reflection of light incident on the exit aperture region but which does not impinge on the active area of a detector optically coupled to the exit aperture. A two-dimensional area array detector concurrently senses a spectral signal corresponding to an input optical radiation signal and a signal corresponding to zero-input radiation, and the spectral signal is corrected according to the zero-input radiation signal.

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Mebane, NC, United States of America

Robert K McMahan