Anderson, Alicia, Naylor, David, Huber, Anthony, Gom, Brad, Fulton, Trevor, Gunuganti, Sudhakar, Jellema, Willem, Veenendaal, Ian and Ade, Peter ![]() |
Abstract
Recent advances in far-infrared detector technology have led to increases in raw sensitivity of more than an order of magnitude over previous state-of-the-art detectors. With such sensitivity, photon noise becomes the dominant noise component, even when using cryogenically cooled optics, unless a method of restricting the spectral bandpass is employed. One method is to use a low-resolution diffraction grating spectrometer to post-disperse the signal from a high-resolution instrument, such as a Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS). This concept has been adopted for the SAFARI instrument on the SPICA mission. This paper discusses the development of a prototype cryogenic grating spectrometer that has been used to evaluate the concept of a post-dispersed polarizing FTS over the range from 285-500 μm.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Date Type: | Published Online |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Physics and Astronomy |
ISBN: | 9781728166209 |
ISSN: | 2162-2035 |
Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 15 April 2021 |
Date of Acceptance: | 11 March 2021 |
Last Modified: | 27 Oct 2022 15:30 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/140505 |
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