Palmer C. Diffraction Grating Handbook

7th edition. — New York: Newport Corporation, 2014. — 265 p.Originally published in 1970, the Handbook has undergone a number of revisions, updates and expansions since then and now contains chapters on the manufacture, testing and use of diffraction gratings, the design of grating systems, application for gratings and advice to grating users. The Handbook also contains dozens of references and a list of technical publications by the Richardson Gratings technical staff.The Handbook covers the following topics:
spectroscopy and gratings
the physics of diffraction gratings
ruled gratings
holographic gratings
replicated gratings
plane gratings and their mounts
concave gratings and their mounts
imaging properties of grating systems
efficiency characteristics of diffraction gratings
stray light characteristics of gratings and grating systems
testing and characterizing diffraction gratings
selection of dispersing systems
applications of diffraction gratings
advice to grating users
handling gratings
guidelines for specifying gratings
sources of error in monochromator-mode efficiency
measurements of plane diffraction gratings
lie aberration theory for grating systems