Mr. Julien Archer Profile

Julien Archer

at Airbus Defence and Space

SPIE Involvement:

Conference Program Committee | Author

Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Paper

The 2020 SPICA telescope preliminary design and predicted performance

Julien Archer, Dominic Doyle, Joel Boyadjian, Lucas Courcoult Mifsud, Anouck Paoletti, Rémi Pujol, Didier Castel, Stéphane Iugovich, Thierry Blais, Jan Tauber, Jacques Rouquet, Hideo Matsuhara, Hidehiro Kaneda, Takao Nakagawa

Proceedings Volume 11443, 1144327 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561626

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Optical design, Optical instrument design, Defense and security, Space operations

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Proceedings Article | 21 November 2017 Open Access

Narrow-band filters for ocean colour imager

Hélène Krol, Frédéric Chazallet, Julien Archer, Laurent Kirchgessner, Didier Torricini, Catherine Grèzes-Besset

Proceedings Volume 10566, 105662N (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2308242

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Proceedings Article | 23 September 2015 Paper

ATLID receiving spatial and spectral filtering units: design and associated performances

Maxime Vaché, Diego de Saint Seine, Pierrick Leblay, Arnaud Hélière, João Pereira Do Carmo, Philippe Berlioz, Julien Archer

Proceedings Volume 9626, 962627 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2191300

KEYWORDS: Optical filters, Sensors, Telescopes, Interfaces, Titanium, Spatial filters, Space telescopes, Atmospheric modeling, Performance modeling, Beam splitters

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ATLID (ATmospheric LIDar) is one of the four key instruments of EarthCARE (Earth Clouds, Aerosols and Radiations Explorer) satellite. It is a program of and funded by the European Space Agency and under prime contractorship of Airbus Defence and Space. ATLID is dedicated to the understanding of aerosols and clouds contribution to earth climate. It is an atmospheric LIDAR that measures the emitted 354.8nm ultraviolet laser which is backscattered by the atmosphere. The molecules and the particles have different optical signatures and can consequently be distinguished thanks to polarization analyses and spectral filtering of the backscattered signal. The following optical units of ATLID receiver chain directly contribute to this function : after ATLID afocal telescope, the CAS-OA, the Optical Assembly of the Co Alignment Sensor, samples and images the beam on the CAS sensor in order to optimize the alignment of transmitting and receiving telescopes. The beam goes through the BF sub-assemblies, the Blocking Filter which has two filtering functions: (1) spatial with the ERO-BF, which is a Kepler afocal spatial filtering module that defines the instrument field of view and blocks the background and straylight out of the useful field of view; (2) spectral with the ERO-EFO, the Entrance Filtering Optic, which is mainly composed of a very narrow bandpass filter with a high rejection factor. This filter rejects the background from the useful signal and contributes to increase the signal-to-noise ratio. The EFO also allows an on-ground adjustment of the orientation of the linear polarization of the input beam. After filtering and polarization adjustment, the beam is injected in several optical fibers and transported to the instrument detectors. This last transport function is done by the FCA, the Fiber Coupler Assembly. This paper presents the flight models of the previously described units, details the opto-mechanical design, and reviews the main achieved performances with a focus on following main specific characteristics: (1) the spectral filtering capabilities of the EFO: Full Width at Half Maximum (FWHM) <0.70 nm, peak transmission >0.90, mean rejection <10^-5 over [320–420] nm; (2) the line of sight stability of the BF: <40 μrad in a very compact design; (3) the high transmission (>0.90) and line of sight stability (<40μrad) of the FCA; (4) the UV laser induced contamination control plan, with end of life contamination level requirements <1mg/m² for molecular and 50 ppm for particulate contamination.

Conference Committee Involvement (3)

UV/Optical/IR Space Telescopes and Instruments: Innovative Technologies and Concepts XII

3 August 2025 | San Diego, California, United States

Optical Design and Engineering IX

8 April 2024 | Strasbourg, France

UV/Optical/IR Space Telescopes and Instruments: Innovative Technologies and Concepts XI

20 August 2023 | San Diego, California, United States

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