NIFS has four gratings physically mounted in the dewar which are briefly described in the tables below, the first table gives the standard grating properties. It also states the default configurations of grating choice which is used in conjunction with a dual blocking filter, one of Z-J, J-H, or H-K for Z and J, H, and K gratings, respectively.

It is possible to tune the central wavelengths of the NIFS gratings to reach the inter-band regions where telluric absorption is worse. The limits on the central wavelength tuning range for each grating are given in the second table.

Table 1: Properties of the standard NIFS Z, J, H and K-band settings.

Table 2: The NIFS gratings can be tuned to different central wavelengths. The short and long limits of the possible tuned central wavelengths and the associated filters required are: