Application of an AOTF imaging spectropolarimeter

Takao Suzuki; Hirohisa Kurosaki; Shigeharu Enkyo; Hajime Koshiishi

doi:10.1117/12.278978

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3 October 1997 Application of an AOTF imaging spectropolarimeter

Takao Suzuki, Hirohisa Kurosaki, Shigeharu Enkyo, Hajime Koshiishi

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Proceedings Volume 3121, Polarization: Measurement, Analysis, and Remote Sensing; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.278978
Event: Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation '97, 1997, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

An imaging radiometer is one of the most fundamental optics sensors for aircraft as well as satellite remote sensing. The important points on the future imaging radiometers are hyper-spectral resolution, wavelength running capability, and polarimetry would give us further information. The basic problem is the requirement for two simultaneous photometric measurements of every point in the sensor field of view for the two orthogonal polarization components. Then we developed a tunable spectral and polarimetric radiometer: an AOTF imaging spectro-polarization components. Then we developed a tunable spectral and polarimetric radiometer: an AOTF imaging spectro-polarimeter which uses an acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF) as spectroscopic as well as polarimetric element. The specific point of the device is that we can simultaneously obtain two diffracted beams and images perpendicularly polarized to each other. The instrument employs an reviewing the concept, configuration and performance of the instrument, applications of the instrument will be presented: the laboratory measurements of light scattering by rough surfaces, the aerosol measurements from the ground, and more.

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Takao Suzuki, Hirohisa Kurosaki, Shigeharu Enkyo, and Hajime Koshiishi "Application of an AOTF imaging spectropolarimeter", Proc. SPIE 3121, Polarization: Measurement, Analysis, and Remote Sensing, (3 October 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.278978

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