Current status of Bolocam: A large-format millimeter-wave bolometer camera

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4855, Issue , 2002, Pages 30-40

  Glenn, Jason ^a   Ade, Peter A R ^b   Amarie, Mihail ^c   Bock, James J ^d   Edgington, Samantha F ^c   Goldin, Alexey ^d   Golwala, Sunil ^c   Haig, Douglas ^b   Lange, Andrew E ^c   Laurent, Glenn ^a   Mauskopf, Philip D ^b   Yun, Minhee ^d   Nguyen, Hien ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolometer arrays; Bolometers; Diffraction limited optics; Millimeter wave

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; BOLOMETERS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BOLOCAM; BOLOMETER ARRAYS; MILLIMETER WAVE BOLOMETER CAMERA;

CAMERAS;

EID: 0038470063     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459369     Document Type: Conference Paper

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