1. NOMAD spectrometer on the ExoMars trace gas orbiter mission: part 1—design, manufacturing and testing of the infrared channels
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Frank Daerden, Eddy Equeter, Tanguy Thibert, W. Moelans, Lieve De Vos, D. Nevejans, Beatriz Aparicio del Moral, Jurgen De Neef, Gustavo Alonso-Rodrigo, Bojan Ristic, Ana Vicario-Arroyo, Manish R. Patel, José-Maria Jeronimo-Zafra, Ann Carine Vandaele, Michel Jankowski, Javier Cubas, Rachel Drummond, Dave Kendall, Sabrina Bonnewijn, Isabel Pérez-Grande, Jean-François Jamoye, Pierre-Yves Puech, M. Carmen Pastor-Morales, Emiel Van Ransbeeck, Ann Baeke, Alexander Soenen, Gerry Pieck, Jeroen Maes, Fermín Navarro-Medina, Roland Clairquin, Cédric Depiesse, Ian Thomas, Nico Van Vooren, Giancarlo Bellucci, Gian Paolo Candini, L. Aballea, Sophie Berkenbosch, Jose-Juan Lopez-Moreno, Jon Ward, S. Delanoye, Alejandro M. Gomez-San-Juan, David Diez, Rosario Sanz, Juan Manuel Gómez-López, Eddy Neefs, R. Morales, Stefan Lesschaeve, Julio Rodriguez-Gomez, and Stijn Glorieux
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Spectrometer ,business.industry ,Infrared ,Materials Science (miscellaneous) ,medicine.disease_cause ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Trace gas ,law.invention ,Orbiter ,Optics ,Filter (video) ,law ,medicine ,Nadir ,Environmental science ,Business and International Management ,business ,Ultraviolet ,Echelle grating ,Remote sensing - Abstract
NOMAD is a spectrometer suite on board ESA’s ExoMars trace gas orbiter due for launch in January 2016. NOMAD consists of two infrared channels and one ultraviolet and visible channel allowing the instrument to perform observations quasi-constantly, by taking nadir measurements at dayside and nightside, and during solar occultations. In this paper, the design, manufacturing, and testing of the two infrared channels are described. We focus upon the optical working principle in these channels, where an echelle grating, used as a diffractive element, is combined with an acousto-optical tunable filter, used as a diffraction order sorter.
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- 2015