Characterization of a submillimeter high-angularresolution camera with a monolithic silicon bolometer array for the caltech submillimeter observatory

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 34, 1996, Pages 6629-6640

  Wang, Ning ^a   Hunter, T R ^a   Benford, D J ^a   Serabyn, E ^a   Lis, D C ^a   Phillips, T G ^a   Moseley, S H ^b   Boyce, K ^b   Szymkowiak, A ^b   Allen, C ^b   Mott, B ^b   Gygax, J ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Swales and Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolometer array; Monolithic silicon bolometer; Submillimeter camera

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; BOLOMETERS; CRYOGENICS; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRIC GROUNDING; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; MICROPHONISM; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

ARRAY SUSPENSION; INFRARED BLOCKING FILTERS; MONOLITHIC BOLOMETER ARRAY; RADIATION BAFFLES; RADIO FREQUENCY NOISE; THERMAL ISOLATION; VACUUM WINDOW;

CAMERAS;

EID: 0030388495     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.006629     Document Type: Article

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