Abstract

This paper presents the optical design of a high-resolution double-grating spectrometer for extracting the multiple lines in the Stokes or anti-Stokes branch of the pure rotational Raman spectra of nitrogen. The spectrometer is composed of collimating and focusing mirrors, two reflective gratings, and a linear detector. The structural parameters were calculated using geometric configuration, dispersion, and aberrational theory, and conditions for first-order correction of keystone distortion with divergent grating illumination were derived. Based on this method, we simulated a spectrometer with a 16-channel linear array photomultiplier tube, resulting in uniformly distributed single-branch lines on each detector channel. The resolution reached 0.225 nm per channel, and the keystone distortion was less than 0.7%. The spectrometer avoids the interference of elastic signals by not detecting them, enabling the extraction of atmospheric temperature profiles via separated single-branch lines with high precision. Our design provides a promising solution to extract atmospheric temperature profiles for pure rotational Raman lidar.

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