Relative performance of filled and feedhorn-coupled focal-plane architectures

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 31, 2002, Pages 6543-6554

  Griffin, Matthew J ^a   Bock, James J ^b   Gear, Walter K ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CAMERAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; INFRARED DETECTORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FEEDHORN-COUPLED ARCHITECTURES;

BOLOMETERS;

EID: 0036848575     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.006543     Document Type: Article

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