Feed horn coupled bolometer arrays for SPIRE - Design, simulations, and measurements

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2139-2146

  Chattopadhyay, Goutam ^a   Glenn, Jason ^b   Bock, James J ^a   Rownd, Brooks K ^b   Caldwell, Martin ^c   Griffin, Matthew J ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feed horn coupled arrays; Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS); HFSS simulations; Integrating cavities; Photometer; Spider web bolometers

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSTALK; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PHOTOMETERS; SILICON NITRIDE; SPECTROMETERS;

FEED HORN COUPLED BOLOMETER ARRAYS; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETER; SPECTRAL AND PHOTOMETRIC IMAGING RECEIVER; SPIDER-WEB BOLOMETERS;

BOLOMETERS;

EID: 0141952884     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.817428     Document Type: Article

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