TIMED Doppler interferometer (TIDI)

The TIMED Doppler Interferometer (TIDI) is a Fabry-Perot interferometer designed to measure winds, temperatures, and constituents in the mesosphere and thermosphere (60 - 300 km) region of the atmosphere as part of the TIMED mission. TIDI is a limb viewer and observes emissions from OI 557.7 nm, OI 630.0 nm, OII 732.0 nm, O 2 (0-0), O 2 (0-1), Na D, OI 844.6 nm, and OH in the spectral region 550 - 900 nm. Wind measurement accuracies will approach 3 ms -1 in the mesosphere and 15 ms -1 in the thermosphere. The TIDI instrument has several novel features that allow high measurement accuracies in a modest-sized instrument. These include: an optical system that simultaneously feeds the views from four scanning telescopes which are pointed at plus or minus 45 degrees and plus or minus 135 degrees to the spacecraft velocity vector into a high-resolution interferometer, the first spaceflight application of the circle-to-line imaging optic (CLIO), and a high quantum efficiency, low noise CCD.