Design of an improved Offner spectrometer for crop fluorescence detection

To monitor crop growth more efficiently, various kinds of hyperspectral spectrometers have been designed to detect chlorophyll fluorescence. In this paper, the traditional Offner spectrometer system is improved, and a structure with a higher spectral resolution is obtained. The double-reflection telescope system is selected, and the spectrometer adopts a highly dense linear reflective convex grating to achieve higher spectral resolution. On this basis, an amplifying lens is added to meet the need for a long slit. An Offner structure is obtained with a slit and image plane on the same side of the grating. The initial structure of the telescope system and the spectrometer are optimized by codeV software. The results show that the spectral resolution is 0.3 nm in the range of 670 similar to 780 nm, the overall Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) is greater than 0.75 at the cut-off frequency of 17 lp/mm, and the Root Mean Square radius (RMS) of the speckle is less than 15 mu m. The proposed system can meet the requirements of highly precise real-time monitoring in crop growth chlorophyll detection.