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Feedhorn development and scalability for Simons Observatory and beyond

Authors :
Simon, Sara M.
Golec, Joseph E.
Ali, Aamir
Austermann, Jason
Beall, James A.
Bruno, Sarah Marie M.
Choi, Steve K.
Crowley, Kevin T.
Dicker, Simon
Dober, Bradley
Duff, Shannon M.
Healy, Erin
Hill, Charles A.
Ho, Shuay-Pwu Patty
Hubmayr, Johannes
Li, Yaqiong
Lungu, Marius
McMahon, Jeff
Orlowski-Scherer, John
Salatino, Maria
Staggs, Suzanne
Wollack, Edward J.
Xu, Zhilei
Zhu, Ningfeng
Source :
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10708, id. 107084B 12 pp. (2018)
Publication Year :
2018

Abstract

The Simons Observatory (SO) will measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in both temperature and polarization over a wide range of angular scales and frequencies from 27-270 GHz with unprecedented sensitivity. One technology for coupling light onto the $\sim$50 detector wafers that SO will field is spline-profiled feedhorns, which offer tunability between coupling efficiency and control of beam polarization leakage effects. We will present efforts to scale up feedhorn production for SO and their viability for future CMB experiments, including direct-machining metal feedhorn arrays and laser machining stacked Si arrays.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10708, id. 107084B 12 pp. (2018)
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1809.07373
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313405