9.1 COMBINING OPTICS, ELECTRONICS, AND SOFTWARE
Many modern optical systems include a combination of optics, electronics, software, and/or firmware. Because each of these portions of the system is interrelated with the other, understanding the capabilities of all three is crucial for an optimal design. Additionally, many portions of the current optical systems utilize digital electronics and microprocessors to replace some of the functionality that used to be performed optically or using analog electronics.
For example earlier spectrometers that analyzed light transmission utilized a reflective chopper wheel to obtain a reference signal from a blank (e.g., a glass) and another through the ...
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