Characterization of the polarization and frequency selective bolometric detector architecture

Details Characterization of the polarization and frequency selective bolometric detector architecture Characterization of the polarization and frequency selective bolometric detector architecture

Jan 2009

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Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2009. Section 0042, Part 0606 216 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Ohio: Case West

Physics

Bolometers, Polarization And Frequency Selective Bolometric Detector, Cosmic Microwave Background, Inflation, Galaxy Clusters

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The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) has been a wonderful probe of fundamental physics and cosmology. In the future, we look towards using the polarization information encoded in the CMB for investigating the gravity waves generated by inflation. This is a daunting task as it requires orders of magnitude increases in sensitivity as well as close attention to systematic rejection and astrophysical foreground removal. We have characterized a novel detector architecture which is aimed at making these leaps towards gravity wave detection in the CMB. These detectors are called the Polarization and Frequency Selective Bolometers (PFSBs). They attempt to use all the available photon information incident on a single pixel by selecting out the two orthogonal polarizations and multiple frequency bands into separately stacked detectors in a smooth-walled waveguide. This approach is inherently multimoded and thus solves problems with downlink and readout throughput by catching more photons per detector at the higher frequencies where the number of detectors required is prohibitively large. We have found that the PFSB architecture requires the use of a square cross-section waveguide. A simulation we developed has illuminated the fact that the curved field lines of the higher order modes can be eliminated by degeneracies which exist only for a square guide and not a circular one. In the square guide configuration, the PFSBs show good band selection and polarization efficiency to a level of about 90% over the beam out to at least 20° from on-axis.

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