Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 42, Issue 10, 1012001(2022)

Design Method of Depolarizer in Converging Optical Path of Spectrometer

Zhikun Wu1,2,3,4, Entao Shi1,3,4、*, Yongmei Wang1,2,3,4, Baoze Guo1,2,3,4, and Pengda Li1,3,4
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  • 1National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3Beijing Key Laboratory of Space Environment Exploration, Beijing 100190, China
  • 4Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Space Environmental Situation Awareness, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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    In order to reduce the polarization sensitivity of a spectrometer, a method of designing a depolarizer in convergent optical path is proposed. In this method, the telescope and collimator of the system are regarded as auxiliary optical paths, so that the polarization state of the beam can be expressed by Stocks vectors; then the polarization characteristic of the element is represented by Mueller matrix, and the polarization sensitivity model of the system based on Mueller matrix is derived; finally, multiple regression analysis is used to improve the calculation speed and accuracy of Mueller matrix. Based on this method, an improved depolarizer placed in the convergent optical path is designed. The polarization sensitivity of the system is less than 1%, and the image point splitting distance is less than 8 μm. The results meet the design requirements and verify the effectiveness of the method for designing the depolarizer in the convergent optical path.

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    Zhikun Wu, Entao Shi, Yongmei Wang, Baoze Guo, Pengda Li. Design Method of Depolarizer in Converging Optical Path of Spectrometer[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2022, 42(10): 1012001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology

    Received: Nov. 8, 2021

    Accepted: Dec. 13, 2021

    Published Online: May. 10, 2022

    The Author Email: Shi Entao (set@nssc.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202242.1012001

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