Smoke and Mirrors: Ultra-Rapid-Scan FT-IR
Spectrometry
It turns out that the deformation is almost exactly spherical. One very
simple solution is to polish the disk to a convex spherical figure which precompensates
the distortion. The problem with this approach is that the deflection will be exactly
compensated at only one rotation speed. A simpler solution is to fabricate the disk from
beryllium. The simplest solution is to ignore the problem - which has been done
temporarily to acquire the data shown herein. The consequence may be a moderate reduction
of modulation efficiency at higher speeds. At the highest scan rate of 667 scans per
second (333 rps) for the data shown here, the distortion should be slightly less than half
the value predicted here for 1000 scans per second.
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