Spectral Doughnut: A Metasurface-Enabled Snapshot Hyperspectral Imager for Unresolved Resident Space Objects
This paper presents "Spectral Doughnut," a compact, metasurface-enabled snapshot hyperspectral imager that maps wavelength onto the azimuthal coordinate of a ring-shaped point-spread function to enable efficient spectral characterization of unresolved resident space objects, validated through a SWIR proof-of-concept design and calibration.