How Does Light Separate on a Detector?

How do dispersers, camera optics, and pixels turn wavelength into position?

Build a wavelength-to-pixel map and distinguish dispersion from resolution.

A laboratory spectrograph sends white light through a diffraction grating and camera optics onto a rectangular detector grid. — Vastward artistic reconstruction of wavelength becoming direction and then detector position.

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