大孔径静态干涉成像光谱仪中双通道Mach-Zehnder横向剪切干涉仪的设计

大孔径静态干涉成像光谱技术是一种时空联合调制的傅里叶变换成像光谱技术,其核心元件通常采用Sagnac横向剪切干涉仪。这种结构会使进入干涉仪的光线有一半沿原路返回,降低了能量利用率。文章提出一种改进型Mach-Zehnder横向剪切干涉仪结构,克服了能量利用率低的缺点,在实现横向剪切的同时,还具有双通道输出的优点。本文通过光线追迹的方法,得到剪切量的一般表达式,并分析了各种误差源对剪切量误差的贡献。为大孔径静态干涉成像光谱仪的设计提供了新思路,可为该类型的成像光谱仪的设计与优化提供理论指导。

Design of a dual-channel Mach-Zehnder lateral shearing interferometer for the large aperture static imaging spectrometer

Large aperture static imaging spectrometry (LASIS) is a kind of joint temporally and spatially modulated Fourier transform imaging spectrometry. In such instruments, lateral shearing interferometer is a key element, the most frequently used type of which is the Sagnac interferometer. In this configuration, one half of the light entering the interferometer backtracks and causes a great decrease in energy efficiency. The present paper proposes a modified Mach-Zehnder lateral shearing interferometer structure to tackle this problem. With the ability to produce the same lateral shear, it features the advantage of dual channel output. We present a ray tracing procedure to induce the general expression of the lateral shear as well as analyze the contributions of error sources to the shear accuracy. The results serve as a new idea for the design of large aperture static imaging spectrometers and can be used to instruct the design and optimization of this kind of imaging spectrometer.