Design of wide-field submillimeter-wave camera using SIS photon detectors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5498, Issue , 2004, Pages 371-380

  Matsuo, Hiroshi ^a,b   Ariyoshi, Seiichiro ^c   Otani, Chiko ^c   Ezawa, Hajime ^a,b   Kobayashi, Jun ^d   Mori, Yuko ^b   Nagata, Hirohisa ^a   Shimizu, Hirohiko M ^c   Fujiwara, Mikio ^e   Akiba, Makoto ^e   Hosako, Iwao ^e  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

0.3 K cryostat; Anti reflection coating; Bolometers; Cryogenic window; Submillimeter wave telescope; Superconducting direct detectors

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CRYOGENICS; DETECTORS; FABRICATION; INFRARED RADIATION; PHOTONS; SHOT NOISE; SQUIDS;

0.3-K CRYOSTATS; ANTI-REFLECTION COATINGS; CRYOGENIC WINDOW; SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE TELESCOPES; SUPERCONDUCTING DIRECT DETECTORS;

CAMERAS;

EID: 19944433373     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552550     Document Type: Conference Paper

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