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Appl Opt. 2017 Apr 01;56(10):2771-2782. doi: 10.1364/AO.56.002771.

NOMAD spectrometer on the ExoMars trace gas orbiter mission: part 2-design, manufacturing, and testing of the ultraviolet and visible channel.

Applied optics

Manish R Patel, Philippe Antoine, Jonathon Mason, Mark Leese, Brijen Hathi, Adam H Stevens, Daniel Dawson, Jason Gow, Timothy Ringrose, James Holmes, Stephen R Lewis, Didier Beghuin, Philip van Donink, Renaud Ligot, Jean-Luc Dewandel, Daohua Hu, Doug Bates, Richard Cole, Rachel Drummond, Ian R Thomas, Cédric Depiesse, Eddy Neefs, Eddy Equeter, Bojan Ristic, Sophie Berkenbosch, David Bolsée, Yannick Willame, Ann Carine Vandaele, Stefan Lesschaeve, Lieve De Vos, Nico Van Vooren, Tanguy Thibert, Emmanuel Mazy, Julio Rodriguez-Gomez, Rafael Morales, Gian Paolo Candini, M Carmen Pastor-Morales, Rosario Sanz, Beatriz Aparicio Del Moral, José-Maria Jeronimo-Zafra, Juan Manuel Gómez-López, Gustavo Alonso-Rodrigo, Isabel Pérez-Grande, Javier Cubas, Alejandro M Gomez-Sanjuan, Fermín Navarro-Medina, Ali BenMoussa, Boris Giordanengo, Samuel Gissot, Giancarlo Bellucci, Jose Juan Lopez-Moreno

PMID: 28375240 DOI: 10.1364/AO.56.002771

Abstract

NOMAD is a spectrometer suite on board the ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, which launched in March 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 the day- and night-side, and during solar occultations. Here, in part 2 of a linked study, we describe the design, manufacturing, and testing of the ultraviolet and visible spectrometer channel called UVIS. We focus upon the optical design and working principle where two telescopes are coupled to a single grating spectrometer using a selector mechanism.

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