Comparison of the crossed and the Gregorian Mizuguchi-Dragone for wide-field millimeter-wave astronomy

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 103-109

  Tran, Huan ^a   Lee, Adrian ^b   Hanany, Shaul ^c   Milligan, Michael ^c   Renbarger, Tom ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MILLIMETER WAVES; PHYSICAL OPTICS;

COSMIC MICROWAVE; CROSS-POLARIZATION LEVELS; REFLECTOR ANTENNAS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 40749105336     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.000103     Document Type: Article

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