Abstract

The construction and operation of a variable spacing Fabry-Perot interferometer that could be used at scanning rates up to 500 scans/sec is described. Mulitlayer interference coatings were used for reflecting surfaces in the near infrared. The high spectral luminosity of the interferometer made its use favorable in low orders for rapid-scan spectroscopy, and in high orders in combination with a grating spectrometer for greater spectral resolution.

© 1961 Optical Society of America

A Scanning Fabry-Perot Interferometer*

William L. Barr and Andrew L. Gardner
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 51(12) 1400-1401 (1961)

Rapid Scanning with the Fabry-Perot Etalon

J. R. Greig and J. Cooper
Appl. Opt. 7(11) 2166-2170 (1968)

Resolving Power in the Near Infrared of the Fabry–Perot Interferometer with Gold and with Silver Coatings

D. A. Jackson and K. Narahari Rao
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 53(5) 558-567 (1963)

Bismuth-Coated Fabry-Perot Etalon for Use in the 2.5–10-μ Region

R. E. Kagarise
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 51(8) 830-833 (1961)

A Rapid-Scanning Fabry-Perot Interferometer with Automatic Parallelism Control

J. V. Ramsay
Appl. Opt. 1(4) 411-413 (1962)