Broadband reflector fed by integrated lens antenna with frequency constant directivity

Bolometers are the most common detectors in submillimeter wave radio telescopes. When the bolometers are integrated with broadband antennas it is possible to achieve more than 100% broadband receivers. The bolometer is placed at the terminals of a single planar metallization broadband antenna (like spiral or log-periodic) that is printed directly at the base of a high dielectric lens. The lens forces the printed element radiation pattern to become predominantly directed into the first reflector of the quasi-optical system of a radio telescope.