ARCHONS: A highly multiplexed superconducting optical to near-IR camera

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Mazin, Benjamin A ^a   O'Brien, Kieran ^a   McHugh, Sean ^a   Bumble, Bruce ^b   Moore, David ^c   Golwala, Sunil ^c   Zmuidzinas, Jonas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

ARCONS; cryogenic detectors; IFU; kinetic inductance detector; LTD; MKIDs

Indexed keywords

ARCONS; CRYOGENIC DETECTORS; IFU; KINETIC INDUCTANCE DETECTOR; LTD; MKIDS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASTRONOMY; CAMERAS; CRYOGENICS; DEMAGNETIZATION; INDUCTANCE; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTONS; PIXELS; RADIO;

DETECTORS;

EID: 78149238330     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856440     Document Type: Conference Paper

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