Articles | Volume 14, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3573-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3573-2021
Research article
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19 May 2021
Research article |  | 19 May 2021

The design and development of a tuneable and portable radiation source for in situ spectrometer characterisation

Marek Šmíd, Geiland Porrovecchio, Jiří Tesař, Tim Burnitt, Luca Egli, Julian Grőbner, Petr Linduška, and Martin Staněk

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We designed and developed a tuneable and portable radiation source (TuPS) to provide a reference wavelength scale, with a bandwidth of emitted radiation of 0.13 nm and uncertainty in wavelength of 0.02 nm. TuPS was successfully used for the in-field characterization of 14 Dobson spectrophotometers in campaigns in Europe. The line spread functions of Dobsons measured by TuPS in conjunction with the cross-sections from IUP improves the consistency between the Dobson and Brewer from 3 % to 1 %.
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