Millimeter-wave antireflection coating for cryogenic silicon lenses

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 3746-3751

  Lau, Judy ^a   Fowler, Joseph ^a   Marriage, Tobias ^a   Page, Lyman ^a   Leong, Jon ^b   Wishnow, Edward ^c   Henry, Ross ^d   Wollack, Ed ^d   Halpern, Mark ^e   Marsden, Danica ^e   Marsden, Gaelen ^e  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; CRYOGENICS; LENSES; MICROWAVE DEVICES; THERMAL CYCLING;

CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES; MATERIAL PROPERTIES; MILLIMETER WAVELENGTHS; SILICON LENSES;

SILICON;

EID: 33746086358     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.003746     Document Type: Article

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