This circuit was developed to aid manufactures of optical equipment in using linear detectors arrays with their optical setup without requiring specialised knowledge of electronics. These circuits ...

Fig. 1: A simplified linear detector circuit of the Bose FM multiplex detector from the patent documents. Fig. 2: John Bose enjoys a hearty meal in the Alpine FM transmitter building in July, 1939.

The tiny LTC5597 RMS power-detector IC developed by Analog Devices provides accurate, full specified performance up to 70 GHz over a 35-dB dynamic range. The RF signal chain is defined by power rather ...

The significance of the entrance slit and the diffraction grating in forming a spectral image of the incident light in the image plane is discussed in the articles “An Introduction to a Spectrometer: ...