Publications

Spectroscopic Experiment

Sugimoto, N., N. Koga,I. Matsui, Y. Sasano, A.Minato, K. Ozawa, Y. Saito, A. Nomura, T. Aoki, T. Itabe, H. Kunimori, I. Murata, and H. Fukunishi (1999), "Earth-Satellite-Earth Laser Long-Path Absorption Experiment Using the Retroreflector in Space (RIS) on the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS), " J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 1, 201-209 .[pdf file 1.2MB]

Koga, N., N.Sugimoto, K. Ozawa, Y.Saito, A. Nomura, A. Minato, T. Aoki, T. Itabe, H. Kunimori (1997), "Laser Long-Path Absorption Experiment Using the Retroreflector in Space(RIS) on the ADEOS Satellite," SPIE, vol. 3218, pp. 2-9.

Evaluation of Optical Characteristics of the RIS in Orbit

Ozawa, K., N. Sugimoto, N. Koga, Y. Kubota, Y. Saito, A. Nomura, A. Minato, T. Aoki, T. Itabe, and H. Kunimori (1997), "Optical Characteristics of the Retroreflector in Space(RIS) on the ADEOS Satellite in Orbit," Opt. Rev. vol. 4, No. 4 , pp.450-452. [pdf file 460kB]

Ozawa, K., N. Koga, N. Sugimoto, T. Aoki, T. Itabe, and H. Kunimori, A. Minato, Y. Kubota, Y. Saito, A. Nomura (1997), "Optical Characteristics of the Retroreflector in Space(RIS) on the ADEOS Satellite," SPIE, vol. 3218, pp.10-18.

Sugimoto, N. and A. Minoto (1996), "Optical Characteristic of the Retroreflector in Space (RIS) for the ADEOS Satellite," Opt. Rev. 3, 62-64. [pdf file 820kB]

Orbital Determination using SLR to the RIS

Maeda, M., M. Ogawa, M. Sawabe, M. Hirota, and H. Kunimori (1997), "Accuracy of Trajectory Determination and Prediction of ADEOS with RIS experiment," SPIE, vol. 3218, pp.31-39.

Two Color Laser Ranging to the RIS

Zagwodzki, T.W., J.F. McGarry, J.J. Degnan(1997), "Two-Color SLR Experiments at the GSFC 1.2m Telescope," SPIE, vol. 3218, pp.113-124.

Optical Design of the RIS

Minato, A., N. Sugimoto, and Y. Sasano (1992), "Optical Design of Cubu-Corner Retroreflectors Having Curved Mirror Surfaces," Appl. Opt 31, 6015-6020. [pdf file 1.1MB]

Optical Test of the RIS

Minato, A., N. Sugimoto, Z. Bleier, G. C. Hunter, and J. Paul (1995), "Measurement of Dihedral Angle Errors of a Large-Aperture Space Retroreflector: Separation of the Effect of Sag Due to Gravity," Opt. Rev. 2, 319-322. [pdf file 640kB]

Sugimoto, N. and A. Minato (1994), "Method for Measuring Dihedral Angles of a Cubu-Corner Retroreflector Having Curved Mirror Surfaces," Optical Engineering 33, 1187-1192.[pdf file 1.1MB]

Ground System for the RIS Experiment

Ozawa, K., N. Koga, N. Sugimoto, Y. Saito, A. Nomura, T. Aoki, T. Itabe, and H. Kunimori (1997), "Laser Transmitter/Receiver System for Earth-Satellite-Earth Long-Path Absorption Measurements of Atmospheric Trace Species Using the Retroreflector In Space," Optical Engineering, vol. 36, No. 12, 3235-3241.[pdf file 1.6MB]

Sugimoto, N. and A. Minato (1995), "Data Reduction Method for the Laser Long-Path Absorption Measurement of Atmospheric Trace Species Using the Retroreflector in Space," IEICE Trans. Common. E78-B, 1585-1590. [pdf file 1.1MB]

Nordstrom, R. J., L. J. Barg, A. F. DeSimone, and N. Sugimoto (1994), "Single-Longitudinal-Mode Operation of a TEA CO2 Laser using a time gated gain cell," Rev. Laser Eng., vol.22, pp. 132-139.[pdf file 1.1MB]

Nordstrom, R. J., L. J. Berg, A. F. DeSimone, and N. Sugimoto (1993), "Time-Gated Gain Cell for Frequency-Stable, Single-Longitudinal-Mode Operation of a Transverse, Electric, Atmospheric CO2 Laser," Rev. Sci. Instrum. 64, 1663-1664.[pdf file 520kB]

RIS Experiment Plan (original plan)

Sugimoto, N., A. Minato, I. Matsui, Y. Sasano, T. Itabe, T. Aoki, M. Takabe, N. Hiromoto, and H. Kunimori: Plan for the Experiment with the Retroreflector in Space (RIS) on ADEOS, SPIE 2583, 217-227 (1995).

Sugimoto, N., A. Minato, and Y. Sasano (1991), "Retroreflector in Space for the ADEOS satellite, "Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Technical Digest Series, vol. 10 (OSA, Washington DC.) p.450.

System Using Geosynchronous Satellite

Sugimoto, N., A. Minato, K. Ozawa, Y. Saito, and A. Nomura (1995), "Theoretical Evaluation of Earth-to-Satellite Laser Long-Path Absorption Measurement of Atmospheric Trace Species in the Infrared Region," Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 34, 2329-2335.[pdf file 724kB]

Sugimoto, N (1987), "Atmospheric environment monitoring system based on an earth-to-satelite Hadmard transform laser long-path absorprion spectrometer: a proposal," Appl.Opt. 26, 763-764.[pdf file 207kB]

New Retroreflector Design

Itaba, M., A. Minato, H. Azuma, S. Ozawa, and N. Sugimoto (2002), "Optical design of a space retroreflector using a hybrid search," Opt. Rev. 9 (1) 25-28. [pdf file 550kB]

Minato, A., S. Ozawa, and N. Sugimoto (2001), "Optical design of a hollow-cube corner retroreflector for a geosynchronous satellite," Appl. Opt. 40 (9) 1459-1463. [pdf file 870kB]

Minato, A. and N. Sugimoto (1998), "Design of a four-element, hollow-cube corner retroreflector for satellites by use of a genetic algorithm," Appl. Opt. 37 (3) 438-442 (1998). [pdf file 850kB]

Minato, A. and N. Sugimoto (1997), "New Method for Calculating Reflected Wave Fronts of Acute Retroreflectors with Tuned Dihedral Angle," Opt. Rev., vol. 4, No. 1B, pp.191-194.

Minato, A. and N. Sugimoto (1997), "Optical Design of Hollow-Corner Retroreflector for Space," SPIE, vol. 3218, pp.55-62.

Sugimoto, N. and A. Minato (1994), "Retororeflector with Acute Dihedral Angles," Optics Letters 19, 1660-1662.[pdf file 342kB]

Other Related Papers

Minato, A., T. Kobayashi, and N. Sugimoto (1998), "Laser Long-Path Absorption Lidar Technique for Measuring Methane Using Gas Correlation Method," Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 37, 3610-3613.

Sugimoto, N., A.Minato, Y.Saito, and A.Nomura (1994), "Heterodyne spectroscopy using spectral spread of short laser pulse," Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 33, 11B, L1602-L1603.[pdf file 228kB]

Sugimoto, N. and A.Minato (1993), "Long-path absorption measurement of CO2 with a Raman-shifted tunable dy laser," Appl. Opt. vol. 32, No. 33, 6827-6833.

1. Outline of the RIS Experiment
2. The RIS on the ADEOS
3. Ground system for the RIS experiment
4. Results - Active tracking using image of the RIS
5. Results - Optical characteristics of the RIS
6. Results - Spectrum Measurement with the RIS
7. Results - Orbital Determination of ADEOS by laser ranging to the RIS
8. Future perspective
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