Diffraction grating handbook

Content: Preface to the sixth edition -- 1. Spectroscopy and gratings -- 2. The physics of diffraction gratings -- 3. Ruled gratings -- 4. Holographic gratings -- 5. Replicated gratings -- 6. Plane gratings and their mounts -- 7. Concave gratings and their mounts -- 8. Imaging properties of grating systems -- 9. Efficiency characteristics of diffraction gratings -- 10. Stray light characteristics of gratings and grating systems -- 11. Testing and characterizing diffraction gratings -- 12. Selection of dispersing systems -- 13. Applications of diffraction gratings-- 14. Advice to grating users -- 15. Handling gratings -- 16. Guidelines for specifying gratings -- Guidelines for specifying gratings -- Appendix A. Sources of error in monochromator-mode efficiency measurements of plane diffraction gratings Appendix B. Lie aberration theory for grating systems -- Further reading -- Grating publications by Newport Corporation personnel -- Index.