Improved performance of TES bolometers using digital feedback

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8452, Issue , 2012, Pages

  De Haan, Tijmen ^a   Smecher, Graeme ^a,b   Dobbs, Matt ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Three Speed Logic Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baseband feedback; Digital feedback; Field Programmable Gate Arrays; TES bolometers

Indexed keywords

BASE BANDS; CURRENT SENSORS; DIGITAL FEEDBACK; DIGITAL FEEDBACK LOOP; DYNAMIC RANGE; INPUT IMPEDANCE; MM-WAVE; NOVEL METHODS; NULLING; PARASITIC IMPEDANCE; SOUTH POLE; TES BOLOMETERS; VOLTAGE BIAS;

ASTROPHYSICS; BOLOMETERS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); MULTIPLEXING; SENSORS;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 84872081971     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.925658     Document Type: Conference Paper

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