Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 39, Issue 5, 0512005(2019)

Forward Simulation of Limb-Viewing Michelson Wind Imaging Interferometer Based on O3 Radiation Source

Weiwei He1, Kuijun Wu2、*, Yutao Feng3, Houmao Wang4, Di Fu3, Qiuxin Liu1, and Xiaohu Yan1
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  • 1 City College, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430083, China
  • 2 Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China
  • 3 Xi′an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi′an, Shaanxi 710119, China
  • 4 National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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    An important method to observe stratospheric winds is to invert the Doppler frequency shift of fine spectra with a Michelson interferometer using an O3 radiation probe source in the 8.823-μm waveband. Therefore, the spectral characteristics of O3 limb radiation were analyzed to determine the best target spectral line. The target spectral line was extracted via the combined filtering of a three-level infrared Fabry-Perot etalon. The four-step interferometric images were obtained during daytime and nighttime limb-viewing with the established numerical model of the Michelson interferometer. Via an error analysis, the result was validated to ensure that, in the range of 15-45 km, the measurement errors of the wind in the line of sight are within a range of 1-2 m/s for both daytime and nighttime observations. Consequently, the stratospheric winds can be detected globally and round the clock using a Michelson interferometer with O3 radiation as the probe source.

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    Weiwei He, Kuijun Wu, Yutao Feng, Houmao Wang, Di Fu, Qiuxin Liu, Xiaohu Yan. Forward Simulation of Limb-Viewing Michelson Wind Imaging Interferometer Based on O3 Radiation Source[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2019, 39(5): 0512005

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    Paper Information

    Category: Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology

    Received: Oct. 8, 2018

    Accepted: Feb. 19, 2019

    Published Online: May. 10, 2019

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    DOI:10.3788/AOS201939.0512005

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