Development of Cost-Effective Polychromator System with Two Angled Filters for Thomson Scattering Measurement System

Abstract

We constructed the cost-effective polychromator system for multi-channel Thomson scattering measurement systems, in which scattered light is reflected between two angled interference filters. The number of interference filters was reduced to less than half of the number of wavelength channels, by using the reflections between two filters whose transmitted wavelength decreases with its angle of incidence. The developed polychromator successfully separated five different wavelength bands (1055.5, 1044.9, 1050.0, 1035.0, and 1024.3 nm), reducing its cost by saving the number of interference filters.