Initial test results on bolometers for the Planck high frequency instrument

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 32, 2008, Pages 5996-6008

  Holmes, Warren A ^a   Bock, James J ^a,b   Crill, Brendan P ^a,b   Koch, Timothy C ^a   Jones, William C ^a,c   Lange, Andrew E ^a,b   Paine, Christopher G ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY BANDS; INFRARED DETECTORS; POLARIZATION;

FLIGHT QUALIFICATION; HIGH FREQUENCY INSTRUMENTS; JET PROPULSION LABORATORY; LINEAR POLARIZATION; MEASUREMENTS OF; NOISE EQUIVALENT POWER; STOKES PARAMETERS; TIME CONSTANTS;

BOLOMETERS;

EID: 60649088544     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.005996     Document Type: Article

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