A Fast Spectrum-Recovery Method for Hadamard Transform Spectrometers Having Nonideal Masks

Abstract

A computationally inexpensive method is presented for the recovery of spectra from measurements obtained with Hadamard transform spectrometers having nonideal masks. Normally, N measurements are required in order to recover an N-point spectrum; this method requires N + N₀ measurements to be taken, where, typically, N₀ ≤ 10. Once the additional measurements have been taken, only O(N[log₂N + 2]) arithmetic operations—mostly additions or subtractions—are needed in order to recover the spectrum; a conventional procedure requires O(2N²) operations. Preliminary work for this method is minimal, requiring O(N) operations as opposed to O(N³) for a conventional procedure; this work needs to be done only once for a given spectrometer. The spectrum-estimate obtained is unbiased.

Keywords

Hadamard transform spectrometer Multiplex spectrometer Liquid crystals Dispersive spectroscopy

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