Abstract
The retroreflector in-space (RIS) is a hollow cube-corner retroreflector with a diameter of 0.5 m for earth-satellite-earth laser long-path absorption measurements of atmospheric trace species. RIS is to be installed on the Japanese polar-orbit satellite ADEOS, which is planned to be launched in early 1995. The structure of RIS is shown in Fig. 1. The optical design of RIS has been carried out at the National Institute for Environmental Studies. A slightly curved surface will be used for one of three mirrors forming the retroreflector, which optimizes the ground pattern of the reflected beam. Figure 2 shows simulated ground patterns of the beam reflected by RIS in orbit.
© 1991 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
N. Sugimoto, A. Minato, Y. Sasano, T. Itabe, N. Hiromoto, and M. Takabe
TuD.21 Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere (ORS) 1993
Yasuhiro Sasano and Nobuo Ichihara
OME2 Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere (ORS) 1991
Nobuo Sugimoto, Atsushi Minato, and Yasuhiro Sasano
WD7 Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere (ORS) 1990