Design and performance of feedhorn-coupled bolometer arrays for SPIRE

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4855, Issue , 2002, Pages 510-519

  Rownd, B ^a   Bock, J J ^b   Chattopadhyay, G ^c   Glenn, J ^a   Griffin, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bolometers; Feedhorns; Herschel space observatory; SPIRE; Submillimeter

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSTALK; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOMETERS; SILICON NITRIDE; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPECTROMETERS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES;

FEEDHORN-COUPLED BOLOMETER ARRAYS; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETER; HERSCHEL SPACE OBSERVATORY; SILICON NITRIDE MICROMESH BOLOMETERS; SPECTRAL AND PHOTOMETRIC IMAGING RECEIVER;

BOLOMETERS;

EID: 0037731273     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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