Development of a broadband submillimeter grating spectrometer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3357, Issue , 1998, Pages 278-288

  Benford, Dominic J ^a   Serabyn, Eugene ^a   Phillips, Thomas G ^a   Moseley Jr , Samuel H ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolometer; Grating; Spectrometer; Submillimeter

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; BOLOMETERS; BUILDINGS; COSMOLOGY; DEMAGNETIZATION; GALAXIES; HETERODYNING; INFRARED DETECTORS; MICROMETERS; NASA; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; REFRIGERATORS; SILICON DETECTORS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; SPECTROMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELESCOPES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

BOLOMETER; BROAD BAND FILTER; CALTECH SUBMILLIMETER OBSERVATORY (CSO); EMISSION LINES; GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER (GSFC); GRATING; HIGH REDSHIFT; INTEGRATION TIME (IT); LIMITED SENSITIVITY; RED SHIFTING; RED-SHIFTS; SILICON BOLOMETERS; SPECTROMETER; STARBURST GALAXIES; SUBMILLIMETER; VELOCITY RESOLUTION;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 0009967905     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317363     Document Type: Conference Paper

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