Cryogenic design of KOSMA's SOFIA Terahertz Array Receiver (STAR)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5498, Issue , 2004, Pages 473-480

  Rabanus, David ^a   Graf, Urs ^a   Philipp, Martin ^a   Stutzki, Jürgen ^a   Wagner Gentner, Armin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beam multiplexing; Cnc machining; Cryogen techniques; Fourier grating; Heterodyne array receiver; Integrated optics; Submillimeter detection

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTRONOMY; CRYOGENICS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; MULTIPLEXING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BEAM MULTIPLEXING; CNC MACHINING; CRYOGEN TECHNIQUES; FOURIER GRATING; HETERODYNE ARRAY RECEIVERS; SUBMIMMIMETER DETECTION;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 12744253984     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551311     Document Type: Conference Paper

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