SPIRE: A bolometer instrument for FIRST

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3357, Issue , 1998, Pages 404-413

  Griffin, Matthew J ^a   Vigroux, Laurent G ^b   Swinyard, Bruce M ^c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bolometer; Far infrared; FIRST; Instrumentation; Submillimetre

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INFRARED DETECTORS; INSTRUMENTS; MICROMETERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOMETERS; PHOTOMETRY; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; TELESCOPES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TOWERS;

BOLOMETER; FAR INFRARED; FIRST; INSTRUMENTATION; SUBMILLIMETRE;

BOLOMETERS;

EID: 0009479984     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317373     Document Type: Conference Paper

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