Heterodyne instrumentation at the CSO

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3357, Issue , 1998, Pages 22-32

  Kooi, Jacob W ^a   Schaffer, P L ^a   Bumble, Bruce ^b   LeDuc, Rick ^b   Phillips, Thomas G ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterodyne instrumentation; Intermediate frequency; SIS junctions; Sub millimeter astronomy

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; BUILDINGS; COMBINED SEWERS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HETERODYNING; INSTRUMENTS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADIO ASTRONOMY; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELESCOPES;

BEAM SWITCHING; CALTECH (CO); DUAL POLARIZATIONS; HETERODYNE INSTRUMENTATION; INTEGRATION TIME (IT); INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY; NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSE); SIS JUNCTIONS; SUB-MILLIMETER ASTRONOMY; SUBMILLIMETER BANDS;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 0039681935     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317362     Document Type: Conference Paper

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