Figure 1
Schematic diagram of four kinds of spectrometer design implementing a concave VLS grating with or without pre-mirror (corresponding to A1–A4). S represents the light source, L is the distance from the original light source to the grating, d is the distance between the pre-concave (or convex) mirror and the grating, rc and are the object and image distances of the concave (or convex) mirror, respectively, r is the object distance of grating indicated by a dotted arrow, r′ is the image distance of grating. (a) Single concave VLS grating, where the object distance of grating is r = L. (b) The concave VLS grating is combined with a pre-focusing concave mirror, forming a real source for the grating, r = > 0. (c) A similar case to (b), where the pre-concave mirror forms a virtual source for the grating, r = < 0. (d) The concave VLS grating is combined with a pre-diverged convex mirror, where the source of the grating is real, i.e. r = > d > 0, since < 0. |