Antenna-coupled TES bolometer arrays for CMB polarimetry

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7020, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kuo, C L ^a,b,c   Bock, J J ^c,d   Bonetti, J A ^d   Brevik, J ^c   Chattopadthyay, G ^d   Day, P K ^d   Golwala, S ^c   Kenyon, M ^d   Lange, A E ^c,d   LeDuc, H G ^d   Nguyen, H ^d   Ogburn, R W ^c   Orlando, A ^c   Transgrud, A ^c   Turner, A ^d   Wang, G ^c,e   Zmuidzinas, J ^c,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Millimeter wave instrumentation; Polarization

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; COSMOLOGY; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; INSTRUMENTS; MICROSTRIP DEVICES; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE FILTERS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; NANOSENSORS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION;

ANTENNA-COUPLED; ATMOSPHERIC WINDOWS; BEAM SHAPING; BOLOMETER ARRAYS; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND EXPERIMENTS; DUAL-POLARIZATION ANTENNAS; FREQUENCY RANGING; HIGH-FIDELITY; LOW CROSS POLARIZATION; MICRO STRIPS; MICROSTRIP FILTERS; MILLIMETER WAVE INSTRUMENTATION; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; ORLANDO; PHOTON NOISE; POLARIZATION MEASUREMENTS; SELECTIVE ANTENNAS; SPECTRAL BANDING; SUB-MILLIMETER;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 52249118098     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788588     Document Type: Conference Paper

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