@inproceedings{e3cfc4d2bdde4478893cac2d141227f0,
title = "Development of the WindCube Fabry-Perot Etalon",
abstract = "WindCube is a NASA HFORT funded mission to study the coupling of thermospheric winds with the earth's ionosphere. The optical system is based on a limb sensing Fabry-Perot etalon designed to measure the Doppler shift of the 630 nm oxygen airglow emission. The instrument payload is designed to fit within a 6U volume in a 12U CubeSat. The accuracy requirement for the wind speed retrieval is 5 m/s. This is the driving requirement for the opto-mechanical stability of the etalon system. Active temperature control of the etalon is employed to keep the mounted etalon within a +/- 0.1 C range. This paper discusses the design and analysis of the mounted etalon system to meet the accuracy requirement as well as surviving the rigors of vibration testing and the launch environment.",
keywords = "Etalon, Fabry-Perot, Finite Element Analysis, Interferometer, Opto-mechanical, Performance Budget, Vibration Analysis",
author = "Patrick Zmarzly and Andrew Carlile and Qian Wu and Scott Sewell and Elizabeth Bernhardt and Chris Pietraszewski and Terry Dines",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 SPIE.; Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation VI 2024 ; Conference date: 16-06-2024 Through 22-06-2024",
year = "2024",
doi = "10.1117/12.3019160",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Ramon Navarro and Ralf Jedamzik",
booktitle = "Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation VI",
address = "United States",
}