Design and characterization of the blazed holographic UV gratings for Tropomi
conference paper
Optical components such as diffraction gratings are widely used in Space-flight satellites to analyse light properties from soft-X rays to Infra-Red. The diffraction gratings are one of the key optical components of space-flight instruments and have to exhibit very high optical performances. TROPOMI (Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument) is a spectrometer to measure the tropospheric composition for climate and air quality applications. TROPOMI is the payload of the Sentinel-5 Precursor mission which is a collaborative effort of ESA and the Netherlands Space Office (NSO), part of the GMES Space Component Programme. For TROPOMI, HORIBA Jobin Yvon SAS (France) has designed, produced and characterized, in collaboration with TNO, a set of blazed holographic plane reflexion gratings optimized in the UV spectral range. HORIBA Jobin Yvon SAS (HJY) has been producing such gratings for space experiments since 1968 and has produced some of the most technically-challenging space-flight gratings ever designed, applications ranging from off-plane X-ray gratings to toroidal Variable-Line-Spacing (VLS) gratings for the VUV and transmission deep groove gratings for the IR range.
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TNO Identifier
842174
ISSN
0277786X
ISBN
9781510616158
Publisher
SPIE
Article nr.
105634S
Source title
International Conference on Space Optics, ICSO 2014, La Caleta, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, 7-10 October 2014
Editor(s)
Sodnik, Z.
Cugny, B.
Karafolas, N.
Cugny, B.
Karafolas, N.
Collation
5 p.
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