Pointing design and testing of corner reflector

The corner reflector is usually realized by fixing the corner cube prism through a specific structure, which is much easier to install and debugin practical application. As we all know, one of the most important uses of the corner reflector is that it can be used as a passive target marker for satellites and aircrafts. At a certain distance, as the angle of incidence increases, the return light efficiency of the corner reflector gradually decreases, and the return light efficiency directly affects the shape and brightness of the target point. Usually when multiple targets are tracked, the better the target direction consistency, the more uniform the light spot can be obtained. This paper introduces the method of drawing the normal direction of the corner cube prism to the mounting surface. The normal direction of the corner cube prism is tested by the self-collimating theodolite and the direction error is within 1′, and the error of return light efficiency is better than 5%, which provides high-precision pointing for the combination of multiple corner reflectors. On this basis, we expand the pointing design of the sub-corner cube prism for the plane array of the corner reflectors. After testing, the direction error of the sub-corner cube prism is within 5′.