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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2017
The United States of America, As Represented BY the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC (US);
Qian Gong, Columbia, MD (US);
David A. Content, Bowie, MD (US);
Michael W. McElwain, Bethesda, MD (US);
Avram Max Mandell, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Tyler D. Groff, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Maxime J. Rizzo, Edgewater, MD (US);
Abstract
A lenslet based integral field spectrograph (IFS) may have a design that makes better use of the detector pixels by placing adjacent spectra next to each other rather than staggering the spectra. Such a design maintains the main compactness and simplicity of prior lenslet array based IFSs, but improves the detector efficiency, which is rather low in conventional lenslet array based IFSs.