학술논문

Design and Deployment of a Multichroic Polarimeter Array on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope.
Document Type
Article
Source
Journal of Low Temperature Physics. Aug2016, Vol. 184 Issue 3/4, p568-575. 8p.
Subject
*POLARISCOPE
*TELESCOPES
*COSMIC background radiation
*ANTIREFLECTIVE coatings
*METAMATERIALS
*SUPERCONDUCTING particle detectors
Language
ISSN
0022-2291
Abstract
We present the design and the preliminary on-sky performance with respect to beams and passbands of a multichroic polarimeter array covering the 90 and 146 GHz cosmic microwave background bands and its enabling broad-band optical system recently deployed on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). The constituent pixels are feedhorn-coupled multichroic polarimeters fabricated at NIST. This array is coupled to the ACT telescope via a set of three silicon lenses incorporating novel broad-band metamaterial anti-reflection coatings. This receiver represents the first multichroic detector array deployed for a CMB experiment and paves the way for the extensive use of multichroic detectors and broad-band optical systems in the next generation of CMB experiments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]