1When this work was done, R. G. Sellar (glenn.sellar@jpl.nasa.gov) was with the Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida. He is now with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 171-B1, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, California 91109.
2Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers/School of Optics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816-2700. USA
R. Glenn Sellar and Glenn D. Boreman, "Comparison of relative signal-to-noise ratios of different classes of imaging spectrometer," Appl. Opt. 44, 1614-1624 (2005)
The continued development of new and fundamentally different classes of imaging spectrometer has increased both the scope and the complexity of comparisons of their relative signal-to-noise ratios. Although the throughput and multiplex advantages of Fourier-transform spectrometers were established in the early 1950s, the application of this terminology to imaging spectrometers is often ambiguous and has led to some confusion and debate. For comparisons of signal-collection abilities to be useful to a system designer, they must be based on identical requirements and constraints. We present unambiguous definitions of terminology for application to imaging spectrometers and comparisons of signal-collection abilities and signal-to-noise-ratios on a basis that is useful to a systems designer and inclusive of six fundamentally different classes (both traditional and novel) of imaging spectrometers.
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