학술논문

A Log-Periodic Channelizer for Multichroic Antenna-Coupled TES-Bolometers
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on. 21(3):180-183 Jun, 2011
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Antennas
Impedance
Bolometers
Microstrip
Optical losses
Lenses
Niobium
CMB polarimetry
high-redshift galaxy cluster photometry
log-periodic channelizer
sinuous antenna
TES-bolometers
Language
ISSN
1051-8223
1558-2515
2378-7074
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%.