The laser beam-expanding lens can improve the beam collimation by reducing the spatial divergence angles of the laser beam, and is widely used in the laser range finder of spaceborne. An aspheric laser beam-expanding lens of spaceborne is designed as a transmission-type lens, and the wavefront error RMS and magnification of the optical system is be requested high-precision in vacuum environment. The assembly and adjustment precision of traditional centering methods cannot achieve the exacting requirements of design. This paper proposes an innovative high-precision assembly and adjustment method for laser beam-expanding lenses. The sensitivity factors of assembly and adjustment are controlled step by step. Base on decentration measurement technology and the interference detection technology corrects system aberration in atmospheric environment, and interferometer power technology ensures system magnification in vacuum environment. The results of test confirm that wavefront error RMS of the lens is 0.015λ@1064nm, and the magnification is 9.98 in vacuum environment, satisfying the stringent design specifications. This approach offers a novel and effective solution for high-precision assembly and adjustment of transmission-type optical systems.
Compared with conventional optical satellites, ZY-3(03) has its outstanding advantage in the combination of camera stereo observation and laser altimeter to directly obtain elevation control points, which can provide high-precision data for real three-dimensional China construction, geographic national conditions monitoring, farmland protection, geological disaster prevention, etc. In order to meet the demand of laser altimeter that the divergence angle is less than 0.1mrad, a laser beam expanding system is developed. The optical system with Galileo structure is composed of a negative lens group and a positive lens. Through the adjustment of the lens spacing and centering adjustment, the installation and adjustment of the beam expanding system under normal pressure is completed, and the wave-front error, defocusing and magnification are tested. In order to meet the conditions of vacuum use, vacuum presets are performed by adjusting the spacing between the front and rear lens groups. The vacuum divergence test of the transmitting system is carried out together with the laser. The measured divergence angle of the transmitting system is 0.084mrad, which meet the system design requirements. Subsequently, a mechanical environment test and a thermal vacuum environment test are carried out. The divergence angles before and after the tests, during the high and low temperature conditions are stable and are all less than 0.1mrad.
The laser altimeter include active transmitter and passive receiver with single pixel detector, the accurate co-alignment of the transmitter to receiver is a challenging task. A facility for axis measurement of transmitter and receiver had to be developed base on pentaprism and two dimensional scanning mechanism.Divide the optical beam before collimator focal plane into two conjugate paths with a pentaprism, one path is for measuring the optical axis of transmitter with beam analyzer. Another path is built with an infrared illuminated aperture stop, scan the two dimensional mechanism under the aperture stop, get the boresight of the receiver by analyzing relationship both detector energy and translation. Error Analysis show that the measurement accuracy of co-alignment of the transmitter to receiver is better than 5″, Prove that the current facility is enough for the alignment of the laser altimeter.
Programmable imager spectrometer can provide flexible data by changing the spectrum section number, central wavelength, spectral width and spatial resolution in orbit. Spectral calibration of imaging spectrometer plays an important role for acquiring accurate spectrum, two spectral calibration types are in essence: wavelength calibration and Full-width-half-maximum (FWHM). Base on the character of programmable imager spectrometer, designed a set of spectral calibration system. Wavelength calibration realized by utilizing the Monochromatic light of high precision monochromator, during the test, changed output parameters of monochromator according to the spectral bandwidth of imager spectrometer. The FWHM is constructed by a set of variable narrow spectrum lines that is output by tunable laser. Gaussian fitting algorithm is used to determine center wavelength and the FWHM of the characteristic spectrum line, Spectral pixels are calibrated by quadratic polynomial, standard spectroscopic lamp is used to verify wavelength calibration result accuracy. The calibration result indicates that FWHM is better than 2nm, the wavelength uncertainty is less than 0.6nm, meet the calibration requirements of programmable imaging spectrometer.
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