The paper presents a novel kind of Hadamard transform optic. First investigations are made with a micro mirror array in a Hadamard transform spectrometer (HTS) whereby the usually used detector array is replaced by the micro mirror array. All the mirrors are imaged onto a single detector. The measurement is performed using a Hadamard matrix, i. e. while each detector reading a certain combination of mirrors given by the matrix is reflecting the light towards the detector. All the rest of them are reflecting the light beside it. The consequence is an improvement of the signal to noise ratio (SNR). The novelty of the realized spectrometer is that in contrast to other applications [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]the mirrors are not statically switched but they are forced to oscillate at their resonant frequency. By this way a special Hadamard matrix can be used that improves the SNR best.
The paper deals with a novel setup of a Hadamard transform spectrometer (HTS) which encoding mask is realized by a micro mirror array. In contrast to other applications of an HTS the mirrors of the array are not statically switched but dynamically driven to oscillate at the same frequency. The Hadamard transform is obtained by shifting the phase shift of oscillation. The paper gives a brief introduction in the entity of the Hadamard transform technique. The driving and detection circuits are presented and first measurement results are discussed.
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