Abstract:The infrared laser atmospheric transmittance measurement methods have the problems of high cost and low realtime performance. To address these problems, a method making use of the measurements of sunlight modulation sunphotometer to obtain the atmospheric transmittance of infrared laser is proposed. It is mainly based on measurements and research of analysis on analogy calculation. This method has the advantages of low cost, simple operation, and realtime performance. The infrared sunlight modulation sunphotometer can measure the atmospheric transmittance in wide band. Then, the relationship between the broadband transmittance and the narrowband transmittance can be revised. Finally, the applicable nearmid infrared multiband laser atmospheric transmittance can be obtained. The actual measurement results and comparison experiments are carried out. Compared with the near infrared sunphotometer developed by the laboratory, experimental results show that the statistical error is less than 4%. Compared with POM02, the statistical error is less than 6%. The realtime results obtained by infrared sunlight modulation sunphotometer can be used not only in the correction of laser atmospheric transmission, but also in the evaluation of laser communication and laser transmission.