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Design of 280 GHz feedhorn-coupled TES arrays for the balloon-borne polarimeter SPIDER | | Johannes Hubmayr
; Jason E. Austermann
; James A. Beall
; Daniel T. Becker
; Steven J. Benton
; A. Stevie Bergman
; J. Richard Bond
; Sean Bryan
; Shannon M. Duff
; Adri J. Duivenvoorden
; H. K. Eriksen
; Jeffrey P. Filippini
; Aurelien A. Fraisse
; Mathew Galloway
; Anne E. Gambrel
; K. Ganga
; Arpi L. Grigorian
; Riccardo Gualtieri
; Jon E. Gudmundsson
; John W. Hartley
; M. Halpern
; Gene C. Hilton
; William C. Jones
; Jeffrey J. McMahon
; Lorenzo Moncelsi
; Johanna M. Nagy
; C. B. Netterfield
; Benjamin Osherson
; Ivan Padilla
; Alexandra S. Rahlin
; B. Racine
; John Ruhl
; T. M. Ruud
; J. A. Shariff
; J. D. Soler
; Xue Song
; Joel N. Ullom
; Jeff Van Lanen
; Michael R. Vissers
; I. K. Wehus
; Shyang Wen
; D. V. Wiebe
; Edward Young
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7 Jul 2016 | | Abstract: | We describe 280 GHz bolometric detector arrays that instrument the
balloon-borne polarimeter SPIDER. A primary science goal of SPIDER is to
measure the large-scale B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background
in search of the cosmic-inflation, gravitational-wave signature. 280 GHz
channels aid this science goal by constraining the level of B-mode
contamination from galactic dust emission. We present the focal plane unit
design, which consists of a 16$ imes$16 array of conical, corrugated feedhorns
coupled to a monolithic detector array fabricated on a 150 mm diameter silicon
wafer. Detector arrays are capable of polarimetric sensing via waveguide
probe-coupling to a multiplexed array of transition-edge-sensor (TES)
bolometers. The SPIDER receiver has three focal plane units at 280 GHz, which
in total contains 765 spatial pixels and 1,530 polarization sensitive
bolometers. By fabrication and measurement of single feedhorns, we demonstrate
14.7$^{circ}$ FHWM Gaussian-shaped beams with $<$1% ellipticity in a 30%
fractional bandwidth centered at 280 GHz. We present electromagnetic
simulations of the detection circuit, which show 94% band-averaged,
single-polarization coupling efficiency, 3% reflection and 3% radiative loss.
Lastly, we demonstrate a low thermal conductance bolometer, which is
well-described by a simple TES model and exhibits an electrical noise
equivalent power (NEP) = 2.6 $ imes$ 10$^{-17}$ W/$sqrt{mathrm{Hz}}$,
consistent with the phonon noise prediction. | | Source: | arXiv, 1606.9396 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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