RADIATION FILTER, SPECTROMETER AND IMAGER USING A MICRO-MIRROR ARRAY

摘要

A spectrometer (10) includes a two-dimensional array of modulatable microm-irrors (18), a detector (20), and an analyzer (22). The micro-mirrors are positioned for receiving individual radiation components forming a part of a radiation source. The micro-mirrors are modulated at different modulation rates in order to reflect individual radiation components at known and different modulation rates. The micro-mirrors combine a number of the reflected individual radiation components and reflect them to the detector. The detector receives the combined radiation components and creates an output signal. The analyzer is coupled to the detector to receive the output signal and to analyze at least some of the individual radiation components making up the combined reflection. By using a micro-mirror array that modulates the radiation components at different rates, all of the radiations components can be focused onto a single detector to maximize the signal-to-noise ratio of the detector.