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Filters

 

The filters available for PHT-P and PHT-C are listed in Tab 1 and 3. Let R be the actual bandpass, which is the filter transmission function convolved with the relative spectral detector responsegif, the central wavelength , filter width , and the average relative system response R are defined as:

is the width of a rectangular filter having the same integrated relative system response as the actual bandpassgif. The relative response curves of all bandpasses together with the equivalent rectangular bandpasses are shown in Appendix C. Note that due to the large wings of especially the long wavelength filters, the rectangular width is significantly different from the full width at half maximum. Some useful filter combinations are illustrated in Fig. 7.



Tue Dec 6 17:24:45 MET 1994