The advantage of grisms is that the same camera can be used both for imaging (without the grism) and spectroscopy (with the grism) without having to be moved.
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Grism
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French
1 entries- grisme noun (combination of diffraction grating and prism)
German
1 entries- Gitterprisma noun (combination of diffraction grating and prism)
Italian
1 entries- grisma noun (combination of diffraction grating and prism)
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If this grism is placed in an ƒ/4 beam at s = 120 mm, the plate factor P ≈ 1100 Å/mm.
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As the name implies, grisms are a combination of a transmission grating and a prism. One common configuration uses the refraction at the grism surface to redirect nonzero diffractive orders along the original optical path.
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The grism usually consists of an SR transmission grating mounted on the hypotenuse of a right-angle prism.[…]Volumetric phase holographic grisms, which are capable of relatively high angular dispersions, have begun to appear.
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