The double grating monochromator's design for pure rotational raman lidar

The pure rotational Raman lidar temperature measurement system is usually used for retrieval of atmospheric temperature according to the echo signal ratio of high and low-level quantum numbers of N2 molecules which are consistent with the exponential relationship. An effective method to detect the rotational Raman spectrum is taking a double grating monochromator. In this paper the detection principle and the structure of the dual-grating monochromator are described, with analysis of rotational Raman's Stokes and anti-Stokes spectrums of N2 molecule, the high order and lower order quantum number of the probe spectrum are resolved, then the specific design parameters are presented. Subsequently spectral effect is simulated with Zemax software. The simulation result indicates that under the condition of the probe laser wavelength of 532nm and using double-grating spectrometer which is comprised by two blazed gratings, Raman spectrums of 529.05nm, 530.40nm, 533.77nm, 535.13nm can be separated well, and double-grating monochromator has high diffraction efficiency.