The Spectrometer

• Autores: Thomas B. Greenslade Jr.
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 50, Nº. 3, 2012, pág. 152
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the fall of 1999 I was shown an Ocean Optics spectrometer-in-the-computer at St. Patricks College at Maynooth, Ireland, and thought that I had seen heaven. Of course, it could not resolve the sodium D-lines (I had done that many years before with a homemade wire diffraction grating1), and I began to realize that inside was some familiar old technology. In this paper I would like to discuss its ancestors