Novel polarization atmosphere Michelson interferometer

Chunmin Zhang; Baohui Zhu; Huachun Zhu; Wenfeng Zeng; Wenyi Ren

doi:10.1117/1.OE.51.10.101714

24 September 2012 Novel polarization atmosphere Michelson interferometer

Chunmin Zhang, Baohui Zhu, Huachun Zhu, Wenfeng Zeng, Wenyi Ren

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Funded by: National High Technology Research and Development Program of China, National High Technology Research Development Special Fund (863 Project) of China, National Key Projects, National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Natural Science of China, Provincial Key Laboratory of Soochow University

Optical Engineering, Vol. 51, Issue 10, 101714 (September 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.10.101714

Abstract

A novel polarization atmosphere Michelson interferometer (NPAMI) based on PAMI was designed. We explain the method of NPAMI for atmosphere detecting and then analyze the NPAMI by Jones matrix; the equations of retrieval atmospheric wind velocity and temperature are also derived. In contrast to PAMI, the NPAMI decreases the number of times for the polarizer's rotation and processing data size, thus, highly increasing the speed of detection. This work has great significance on theoretical research, capability improvement, and would be useful for the application on the passive measurement of the wind field of the upper atmosphere.

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Chunmin Zhang, Baohui Zhu, Huachun Zhu, Wenfeng Zeng, and Wenyi Ren "Novel polarization atmosphere Michelson interferometer," Optical Engineering 51(10), 101714 (24 September 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.10.101714

Published: 24 September 2012

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