Abstract: An apparatus for effecting spatial Fourier transform spectroscopic detection of light from a surface luminescent object with high sensitivity by use of a quadrangular common path interferometer. The apparatus includes an improvement which consists of an additional imaging optical system which converges a light beam from the specimen so as to enter the beam splitter. The additional imaging optical system is disposed so that an image position is substantially coincident with the position of the second of three mirrors in the apparatus.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 25, 1991
Date of Patent:
February 27, 1996
Assignees:
Research Development Corporation of Japan, Toshiyuki Nagoshi, Tsutomu Ichimura