Broadband anti-reflective coatings for cosmic microwave background experiments

Nadolski, A, Kofman, A. M, Vieira, J. D, Ade, P. A. R, Ahmed, Z, Anderson, A. J, Avva, J. S, Basu Thakur, R, Bender, A.N, Benson, B.A, Carlstrom, J.E, Carter, F.W, Cecil, T.W, Chang, C. L, Cliche, J. F, Cukierman, A, de Haan, T, Ding, J, Dobbs, M.A, Dutcher, D, Everett, W, Foster, A, Fu, J, Gallicchio, J, Gilbert, A, Groh, J. C, Guns, S. T, Guyser, R, Halverson, N. W, Harke-Hosemann, A. H, Harrington, N.L, Henning, J. W, Holzapfel, W.L, Huang, N, Irwin, K. D, Jeong, O. B, Jonas, M, Jones, A, Khaire, T. S, Korman, M, Kubik, D.L, Kuhlmann, S, Kuo, C.-L, Lee, A. T, Lowitz, A. E, Meyer, S. S, Michalik, D, Montgomery, J, Natoli, T, Nguyen, H, Noble, G.I, Novosad, V, Padin, S, Pan, Z, Pearson, J, Posada, C. M, Quan, W, Rahlin, A, Ruhl, J. E, Sayre, J.T, Shirokoff, E, Smecher, G, Sobrin, J. A, Stark, A. A, Story, K. T, Suzuki, A, Thompson, K. L, Tucker, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-3918, Vanderlinde, K, Wang, G, Whitehorn, N, Yefremenko, V, Yoon, K. W and Young, M. R 2018. Broadband anti-reflective coatings for cosmic microwave background experiments. Presented at: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 10-15 June 2018. Proceedings Volume 10708, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IX. Proceedings of SPIE. , vol.10708 10.1117/12.2315674

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Abstract

The desire for higher sensitivity has driven ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments to employ ever larger focal planes, which in turn require larger reimaging optics. Practical limits to the maximum size of these optics motivates the development of quasi-optically-coupled (lenslet-coupled), multi-chroic detectors. These detectors can be sensitive across a broader bandwidth compared to waveguide-coupled detectors. However, the increase in bandwidth comes at a cost: the lenses (up to 700 mm diameter) and lenslets ( 5 mm diameter, hemispherical lenses on the focal plane) used in these systems are made from high-refractive-index materials (such as silicon or amorphous aluminum oxide) that reflect nearly a third of the incident radiation. In order to maximize the faint CMB signal that reaches the detectors, the lenses and lenslets must be coated with an anti-reflective (AR) material. The AR coating must maximize radiation transmission in scientifically interesting bands and be cryogenically stable. Such a coating was developed for the third generation camera, SPT-3G, of the South Pole Telescope (SPT) experiment, but the materials and techniques used in the development are general to AR coatings for mm-wave optics. The three-layer polytetra uoroethylene-based AR coating is broadband, inexpensive, and can be manufactured with simple tools. The coating is field tested; AR coated focal plane elements were deployed in the 2016-2017 austral summer and AR coated reimaging optics were deployed in 2017-2018.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
ISSN:	2410-9045
Last Modified:	24 Apr 2023 13:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/156691

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