Timeline for Prism: full spectrum including UV + IR
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| Aug 31, 2023 at 8:40 | comment | added | Mark Morgan Lloyd | Noting obviously that that's one for OP's consideration. I thought it worth raising since a lot of demonstration prisms will be glass of uncertain specification, or even (gasp) /plastic/. | |
| Aug 31, 2023 at 7:33 | comment | added | ondas | Depends on the glass of which the glass is made of. Usually you have fused silica (SiO2) which is transparent up to 180 nm. Most glasses are transparent for visible and IR but absorb strongly in the UV, and usually very expensive glasses will have improved performance at the UV, but they don't come cheap. Do you know where the prism comes from to quickly check the transmittance? | |
| Aug 31, 2023 at 7:31 | history | edited | ondas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Small typo.
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| Aug 31, 2023 at 5:57 | comment | added | Mark Morgan Lloyd | Excellent answer, but it leaves me a bit concerned about the transmissitivity of the prism (strictly, of the glass out of which it is made) to different wavelengths. | |
| Aug 30, 2023 at 13:56 | vote | accept | BigQuestions | ||
| Aug 30, 2023 at 12:24 | history | answered | ondas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |