Compact Martian Wind Interferometer

All-static, no moving parts

All-solid-state polarized design with dual-glass compensation for miniaturization and athermalization, enabling static simultaneous imaging of global Martian wind and temperature fields from spacecraft.

Zhang, Chunmin · Wang, Yanqiang · Biyun, Zhang · Yan, Tingyu · Chen, Zeyu · Chen, Zhengyi

Remote Sensing 2023

Advantages

Optical path difference of 8.6 cm (SNR-optimized)

All-solid-state miniaturized structure

No moving parts, minimal stray light