Design, construction and testing of lateral transfer retroreflectors for space-based applications

Bryan Martin; Ray Boucarut; Richard Gore; Jonathan Penn

doi:10.1117/12.2242471

30 September 2016 Design, construction and testing of lateral transfer retroreflectors for space-based applications

Bryan Martin, Ray Boucarut, Richard Gore, Jonathan Penn

Proceedings Volume 9948, Novel Optical Systems Design and Optimization XIX; 99480I (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2242471
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The function of a Lateral Transfer Retroreflector is to accurately shift a beam of light laterally, while changing its direction 180 degrees. It uses three optically-flat, reflective surfaces located in mutually perpendicular planes to return an output beam parallel, but laterally separated from the input beam. The device maintains parallelism of the two beams regardless of its own orientation. From mid-2011 to late 2015, two types of LTR were designed, developed, produced and tested at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland. Information about the development process, along with performance results is given.

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Bryan Martin, Ray Boucarut, Richard Gore, and Jonathan Penn "Design, construction and testing of lateral transfer retroreflectors for space-based applications", Proc. SPIE 9948, Novel Optical Systems Design and Optimization XIX, 99480I (30 September 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2242471

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