Title :
A Log-Periodic Channelizer for Multichroic Antenna-Coupled TES-Bolometers
Author :
O´Brient, Roger ; Ade, Peter ; Arnold, Kam ; Edwards, Jennifer ; Engargiola, Greg ; Holzapfel, William ; Lee, Adrian T. ; Myers, Michael ; Rebeiz, Gabriel ; Richards, Paul ; Suzuki, Aritoki
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
fDate :
6/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We have fabricated a dual-polarized multichroic antenna-coupled bolometer prototype pixel for use in focal planes of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarimetry experiments and for submillimeter observations of high redshift galaxies. We couple millimeter and submillimeter power onto the detector with a dual polarized sinuous antenna that has a continuous bandwidth of 60-250 GHz and we use a contacting extended hemispherical lens to boost the gain high enough to match the optics of a typical telescope. We partition each polarization channel into seen contiguous channels with a channelizer circuit that mimics the physiology of the human ear and then terminate each channel on a separate TES bolometer. Fourier Transform Spectroscopy demonstrates that the bands are near the designed locations with total receiver throughputs of 20-30%.
Keywords :
Fourier transform spectroscopy; bolometers; log periodic antennas; radioastronomy; radiofrequency cosmic radiation; Fourier transform spectroscopy; channelizer circuit; contiguous channel; cosmic microwave background polarimetry; dual polarized sinuous antenna; dual-polarized multichroic antenna-coupled bolometer prototype pixel; focal plane; hemispherical lens; high redshift galaxies; log-periodic channelizer; multichroic antenna-coupled TES bolometer; polarization channel; submillimeter observation; telescope; Antennas; Bolometers; Impedance; Lenses; Microstrip; Niobium; Optical losses; CMB polarimetry; TES-bolometers; high-redshift galaxy cluster photometry; log-periodic channelizer; sinuous antenna;
Journal_Title :
Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TASC.2010.2093090