The quasi-optical design of the QUaD telescope

Infrared Physics and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 277-286

  O'Sullivan, C ^a   Cahill, G ^a   Murphy, J A ^a   Gear, W K ^b   Harris, J ^b   Ade, P A R ^b   Church, S E ^c   Thompson, K L ^c   Pryke, C ^d   Bock, J ^e,f   Bowden, M ^b,c   Brown, M L ^g   Carlstrom, J E ^d   Castro, P G ^g   Culverhouse, T ^d   Friedman, R B ^d   Ganga, K M ^h   Haynes, V ^b   Hinderks, J R ^c   Kovak, J ^f   Lange, A E ^f   Leitch, E M ^e,f   Mallie, O E ^b   Melhuish, S J ^b   Orlando, A ^b   Piccirillo, L ^b   Pisano, G ^b   Rajguru, N ^b   Rusholme, B A ^c   Schwarz, R ^d   Taylor, A N ^g   Wu, E Y S ^c   Zemcov, M ^b,e,f   more..

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Feedhorn design; Gaussian beam modes; Optical design; Quasioptics

Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MICROWAVES; PRODUCT DESIGN; RADIATION EFFECTS;

COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND; GAUSSIAN BEAM MODES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 40049089144     PISSN: 13504495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infrared.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Kovac J., Leitch E.M., Pryke C., Carlstrom J.E., Halverson N.W., and Holzapfel W.L. Detection of polarization in the cosmic microwave background using DASI. Nature 420 (2002) 772
2. Zaldarriaga M., Spergel D.N., and Seljak U. Microwave background constraints on cosmological parameters. ApJ. 488 (1997) 1
3. Church S., et al. QUEST on DASI: a South-Pole CMB polarization experiment. New Astron. Rev. 47 (2003) 1083-1089
4. Bowden M., et al. Scientific optimisation of a ground-based CMB polarization experiment. MNRAS 349 1 (2004) 321-335
5. W.C. Jones, R. Bhatia, J.J. Bock, A.E. Lange, A polarization sensitive bolometric receiver for observations of the cosmic microwave background, in: T.G. Phillips, J. Zmuidzinas (Eds.), Proceedings of the SPIE, vol. 4855, p. 227, 2003.
6. ZEMAX Development Corporation, Zemax-EE, http://www.zemax.com/.
7. Murphy J.A., Gleeson E., Cahill G., Lanigan W., O'Sullivan C., Cartwright E., Church S.E., Hinderks J., Kirby E., Thompson K., Rusholme B.W.K., Maffei B., Ade P.A.R., Tucker C., and Jones B. Millimeter-wave profiled corrugated horns for the QUaD cosmic background polarization experiment. Int. J. IR Millimeter Waves 26 4 (2005) 505-523
8. Murphy J.A., Colgan R., O'Sullivan C., Maffei B., and Ade P. Radiation patterns of multi-moded corrugated horns for far-IR space applications. Infrared Phys. Technol. 42 (2001) 515-528
9. Gleeson E., Murphy J.A., Maffei B., Lanigan W., Brossard J., Cahill G., Cartwright E., Church S.E., Hinderks J., Kirby E., and O'Sullivan C. Corrugated waveguide band edge filters for CMB experiments in the far infrared. Infrared Phys. Technol. 46 6 (2005) 493-505
10. Gleeson E., Murphy J.A., and Maffei B. Phase centres of far infrared multi-moded horn antennas. Int. J. Infrared Millimetre Waves 23 5 (2002) 711-730
11. Gradziel M.L., White D., Trappe N., Mahon R.J., Finn T.J., Withington S., Murphy J.A., and O'Sullivan C.M. Modelling of millimetre-wave and Terahertz imaging systems. Proceedings of the SPIE 5619 (2004) 154-165
12. Goldsmith P. Quasioptical systems: Gaussian beam quasioptical propagation and applications (1997), IEEE Press, New York
13. Applied Optics Research, GLAD, http://www.aor.com.
14. TICRA Engineering Consultants, GRASP8, http://www.ticra.dk.
15. O'Sullivan C., Atad-Ettedgui E., Duncan W., Henry D., Jellema W., Murphy J.A., Trappe N., van de Stadt H., Withington S., and Yassin G. Far-IR optics design and verification. Int. J. IR Millimeter Waves 23 (2002) 7
16. G. Yassin, S. Withington, C. O'Sullivan, J.A. Murphy, T. Peacocke, W. Jellema, P. Wesselius, Electromagnetic simulations of submillimetre-wave systems, in: Proceedings of 13th International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology, Harvard, USA, 2002.
17. Born M., and Wolf E. Principles of Optics (1999), Cambridge University Press
18. K. Coble et al., Observations of Galactic and Extra-galactic Sources From the BOOMERANG and SEST Telescopes, arXiv:astro-ph/0301559v1, January 2003.
19. Boldizar A., Jacobsson S., and Hård S. Far infrared birefringence versus other orientational measurements of high-pressure injection-molded high-density polyethylene. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 36 7 (1988) 1567-1581
20. Leitch E.M., Kovac J.M., Pryke C., Carlstrom J.E., Halverson N.W., Holzapfel W.L., Dragovan M., Reddall B., and Sandberg E.S. Measurement of polarization with the degree angular scale interferometer. Nature 420 (2002) 763-771
21. J. Hinderks et al., ApJ Supplement, submitted for publication.
22. P.A.R. Ade et al., First season QUaD CMB temperature and polarization power spectra, ApJ, accepted for publication (2008).