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One‐mirror, one‐grating spatial heterodyne spectrometer for remote‐sensing Raman spectroscopy
Author(s) -
Egan Miles J.,
AcostaMaeda Tayro E.,
Angel S. Michael,
Sharma Shiv K.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of raman spectroscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.748
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1097-4555
pISSN - 0377-0486
DOI - 10.1002/jrs.5788
Subject(s) - michelson interferometer , optics , spectrometer , raman spectroscopy , fourier transform spectroscopy , diffraction , interferometry , spectral resolution , grating , diffraction grating , optical path , detector , optical path length , fourier transform , physics , materials science , fourier transform infrared spectroscopy , spectral line , quantum mechanics , astronomy
Abstract Recently, we evaluated a new type of Fourier transform Raman spectrometer, the spatial heterodyne Raman spectrometer (SHRS), which provides high‐resolution Raman spectra without the need for an entrance slit. An SHRS is a variant of a Michelson interferometer in which the mirrors in the arms of a Michelson interferometer are replaced by two stationary diffraction gratings. Instead of sampling path length differences temporally, as in the case of a Michelson interferometer, SHRS samples path length differences spatially at a two‐dimensional array detector. Applying a Fourier transform to the resulting interferogram recovers the desired spectrum. In the modified SHRS (mSHRS) instrument used in the present work, one of the diffraction gratings has been replaced by a stationary λ/10 mirror. This modification has a few effects. First, the detector records a greater number of photons, as spectral light is not lost into unused diffraction orders in the mirror arm of mSHRS. Second, the free spectral range (wavelength coverage) is doubled, whereas the spectral resolution is cut in half. In this work, the authors present remote‐sensing Raman spectra of minerals, organics, and biomarkers using this mSHRS for the first time.