 Free spectral range of an echelle grating

At fixed incident and central outgoing angles, the grating equation gives $m{\lambda }_m=K=d(\sin \alpha +\sin {\beta }_0)$. Adjacent central wavelengths are separated byThis is the usual adjacent-order free spectral range. A detector width of approximately $q\Delta {\lambda }_{\mathrm{FSR}}$, where $q$ is the grating dispersion, covers one such interval.