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An Historical Perspective on the Development of Fourier Transform Spectrometry

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• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 2009 paper: FMA1
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Buijs, Henry
• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy has achieved considerable maturity since its beginning in the nineteen fifties. Early on it benefitted from a significant sensitivity ...

HIS and the New CLARREO Mission

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• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 2009 paper: FMA2
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Revercomb, Hank; Best, Fred A; Tobin, David C; Knuteson, Robert O; Taylor, Joe K; LaPorte, Dan; Dutcher, Steve; Holz, Bob; Nagle, Fred
• The High-resolution Interferometer Sounder (HIS) aircraft spectrometers have validated the accuracy of IR satellite instruments and helped form a foundation for the CLimate Absolute...

Thermal Infrared Spectroscopy of Saturn and Titan from Cassini

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• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 2009 paper: FMA3
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Jennings, Donald E; Brasunas, J C; Carlson, R C; Flasar, F M; Kunde, V G; Mamoutkine, A A; Nixon, C A; Pearl, J C; Romani, P N; Simon-Miller, A A; Bjoraker, G L
• The Cassini spacecraft completed its nominal mission at Saturn and Titan in 2008 and began its extended mission. Cassini carries the Composite Infrared Spectrometer that measures...

Analysis of the CrIS Flight Model 1 Radiometric Linearity

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• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 2009 paper: FMA4
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Taylor, Joe K; Tobin, Dave C; Revercomb, Henry E; Knuteson, Robert O; Borg, Lori; Best, Fred A
• The CrIS Flight Model 1 has recently completed thermal vacuum testing. Here we present the independent UW-SSEC analyses of various test data to assess the radiometric linearity of the...

Frequency Comb Spectroscopy

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• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 2009 paper: FMB1
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• Coddington, Ian R; Swann, William C; Newbury, Nathan R
• A stabilized frequency comb provides a broadband array of highly resolved comb lines. Using a multiheterodyne technique, we measure the amplitude and phase of every comb line, allowing...

Frequency Comb Fourier Transform Spectroscopy with kHz Optical Resolution

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• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 2009 paper: FMB2
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• Jacquet, Patrick; Mandon, Julien; Bernhardt, Birgitta; Holzwarth, Ronald; Guelachvili, Guy; Hänsch, Theodor W; Picqué, Nathalie
• Michelson-less Fourier spectra, comprising 500,000,000 spectral elements spanning 1 nm with 2.3 kHz (7.7 10^-8 cm^-1) resolution, are recorded within 6s. Moving mirror of equivalent...

GHz Yb-Fiber Laser Frequency Comb for Spectroscopy Applications

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• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 2009 paper: FMB3
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• Hartl, Ingmar; McKay, H A; Thapa, R; Thomas, B K; Ruehl, A; Dong, L; Fermann, M E
• We demonstrate a fully stabilized GHz-spaced Yb-fiber laser frequency comb using a Yb-fiber femtosecond oscillator with 1.04 GHz fundamental repetition rate designed for comb...

SWIFTS: A New Lilliputian Family of Fourier Transform Spectrometer

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• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 2009 paper: FMB4
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Le Coarer, Étienne
• SWIFTS is a new family of micro-Fourier-spectrometers without any moving part. This is an association of a a set of small detectors that samples a stationary wave in the evanescent...

From the Concept to the Definition of the SIFTI Instrument: Static Infrared Fourier Transform Interferometer

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• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 2009 paper: FMB5
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• Hébert, Philippe; Cansot, E; Pierangelo, C; Buil, C; Brachet, F; Bernard, F; Loesel, J; Trémas, T; Perrin, L; Courau, E; Casteras, C; Maussang, I
• SIFTI, a static interferometer using a pair of crossed staircase fixed mirrors, will provide high quality TIR spectra of O³and CO. At phase A mid-term, we review main...

First Results from Mistere, a Cryogenic Static Fourier-Transform Spectroradiometer

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• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 2009 paper: FMB6
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• Ferrec, Yann; Rommeluère, Sylvain; Henry, Didier; Guérineau, Nicolas
• Mistere is an infrared spectroradiometer, developed to make field measurements at different incidences. The requirements led to design a cryogenic static Michelson interferometer. We...

MTG-IRS: Status, Specifications and Technical Concept

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• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 2009 paper: FMC1
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• Stuhlmann, Rolf; Rodriguez, Antonio; Tjemkes, Stephen; Aminou, Donny M; Stark, Hendrik; Schumann, Wolfgang
• MTG-IRS will be Europe's first hyperspectral sounder in a geo-stationary orbit. It covers two bands (700-1210 and 1600-2175 cm^-1) and measures with a spatial sampling of 4...

Instrumental Aspects of IASI

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• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 2009 paper: FMC2
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• Blumstein, Denis; Péquignot, E; Buffet, L; Buil, C; Hébert, P; Larigauderie, C; Camy-Peyret, C; Siméoni, D
• This paper gives the status of the IASI instrument after more than two years in orbit. It details aspects like stability of the instrument, decontaminations and anomalies caused by...

A Small Surface-Based Infrared Spectrometer for the Exploration of the Moon and Other Planetary Bodies

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• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 2009 paper: FMC3
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• Moreau, Louis M; Spray, John G; Giaccari, Philippe; Boonsue, Suporn; Thompson, Lucy
• A concept for a small broadband Fourier transform spectrometer mounted on a surface platform such as rover for a lunar exploration mission is presented. The characteristics and...

Modelling of the Beamsplitter Properties within the Tropospheric Airborne Fourier Transform Spectrometer (TAFTS) and Associated Effect on Instrument Calibration

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• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 2009 paper: FMC4
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• Cox, Caroline V; Green, Paul; Pickering, Juliet; Murray, Jon; Harries, John E; Last, Alan
• A polarising far infrared spectrometer has been simulated to investigate the effect of Mylar substrates on polarisers. Procedural errors were found to the calibration in certain...

Airborne / Balloonborne Imaging FTS

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• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 2009 paper: FThA1
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• Friedl-Vallon, Felix
• The current status of the development of the airborne Global Limb Radiance Imager of the Atmosphere (GLORIA-AB) instrument is outlined. Characterisation measurements and the road map...

Recent Instrument Development at Telops

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• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 2009 paper: FThA2
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• Chamberland, Martin; Farley, Vincent; Lagueux, Philippe; Villemaire, André; Dubois, Patrick; Gagnon, Jean-Philippe
• Since the introduction of a LWIR imaging-FTS in 2005, Telops developed other state-of-the-art FTS instruments. An airborne imaging-FTS, real-time calibration of hypercubes, fast...

Continuous-Scan Imaging FTS with an Integrating Camera - Contributions of Sampling Jitter Noise to NESR

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• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 2009 paper: FThA3
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• Tremblay, Pierre; Chamberland, Martin
• We report a thorough analysis of the impact of sampling jitter in imaging Fourier-Transform Spectrometers operating with an externally triggered integrating camera. Through estimation...

Wide-Field Imaging FTS at High Spectral Resolution

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• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 2009 paper: FThA4
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• Maillard, Jean-Pierre
• Astronomical spectral imaging calls in many case for wide-field instruments and high spectral resolution. These two conditions are theoretically realized with an imaging FTS. Practical...

Retrieving of a Spectrum from a Non Stationary Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer

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• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 2009 paper: FThA5
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• Mahgoub, Ahmed G; Nguyen, Thanh; Zaccarin, André; Desbiens, Raphaël
• Motion estimation is used to align the frames resulting from a non-stationary imaging Fourier transform spectrometer. This motion correction is expected to increase the spectral...

Spatial Heterodyne Imager for Chemicals and Atmospheric Detection (SHIMCAD): First Brassboard Results

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• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 2009 paper: FThA6
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• Babcock, David D; Englert, Christoph R; Harlander, John M
• A design overview of the Spatial Heterodyne Imager for Chemicals and Atmospheric Detection (SHIMCAD) brassboard instrument and its first long-wave infra-red transmittance measurement...