1. A brief history of spectroscopy 2. The relevant regions of the electromagnetic spectrum 3. Geometrical optics 4. Optical aberrations 5. Fourier transforms - a brief revision 6. Physical optics and diffraction 7. The prism spectrograph 8. The plane grating spectrograph 9. The concave grating spectrograph 10. The interference spectrograph 11. The multiplex spectrometer 12. Detectors 13. Auxiliary optics 14. Optical design 15. Mechanical design and construction 16. Calibration 17. The alignment of a spectrograph Index.
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