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In order to meet the requirements of the micro display for the measurement of sub-pixel luminance and chromaticity parameters, this paper introduces the micro-objective into the imaging luminance meter scheme. A set of microscopic imaging luminance meter is designed and developed by using high resolution camera, XYZ color filter, micro-objective lens, and the micro level target is tested. The mobile phone screen, micro display and standard reticle are tested. The experimental results show that the luminance and chromaticity of samples with size less than one micron can be measured, when 31-megapixel resolution monochrome camera and 50 times micro lens are used. The luminance test error after calibration is less than 1%.

Satellite measurements of backscattered sunlight contain essential information about the global distribution of atmospheric constituents. Light reflected from the Earth’s atmosphere is linearly or partially linearly polarized because of scattering of unpolarized sunlight by air molecules and aerosols. In the ultraviolet and visible part of the spectrum, measurements of space-borne grating spectrometers are in general sensitive to the state of polarization of the observed light. The interaction of polarized light with polarization-sensitive optical devices yields a different radiance that is measured by the detectors than the radiance that enters the instrument. In the OMI and the SBUV/2 instruments the problem of instrument polarization sensitivity is avoided because the polarized backscattered sunlight is depolarized before it interacts with the polarization-sensitive optical components. For GOME, SCIAMACHY, and GOME-2 it is intended to eliminate the polarization response of the instrument from the polarization-sensitive measurement. This paper discusses the basic concept of the polarisation correction of the space-borne grating spectrometers by using Mueller matrix calculus. A model was developed using the Mueller Matrices formulation to evaluate the polarization sensitivity of the space-borne grating spectrometers. The optical components are treated as general diattenuators with phase retardance. The correction for this polarization sensitivity is based on broadband polarization measurements. Accurate preflight polarisation calibration of space-borne grating spectrometers is essential for the observational objectives of the instrument, and a special facility has been developed in order to allow the instrument to be calibrated.

The deployment of advanced hyperspectral imaging and other Earth sensing instruments onboard Earth observing satellites is driving the demand for high-data rate communications. Space laser communications technology offers the potential for significantly increasing in data return capability from space to Earth. Compared to the current state of the art radio frequency communications links, lasercom links operate at much higher carrier frequencies. The use of higher carrier frequencies implies a much smaller diffraction loss, which in turn, results in a much higher efficiency in delivering the signal energy. Optical communications meet the required data rates with small, low-mass, and low-power communications packages. The communications optical system assembly typically consists of a front aperture, reflection or refraction type telescope, with or without a solar rejection filter, aft optics, fine-pointing mirrors, and array detectors. Optical system used in space laser communications usually has long focal length, large aperture compared with common optical systems. So the reflective optical system is widely used. An unobstructed four-mirror anastigmatic telescope system was proposed, which was modified based on the theory about geometry optics of common-axis three-mirror systems. Intermediate image was between secondary and tertiary mirror. In order to fold the optical path, four-mirror was designed by adding the plane reflective mirror at intermediate image. The design was analyzed, then a system with effective aperture of 200mm and field of view of 1.0°x1.0° was designed, total length and magnification are 700mm and 20, respectively. The system has advantages of large magnification, relative short physical size and loose manufacturing tolerances.