Published August 19, 2014 | Version Published
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Lithographed spectrometers for tomographic line mapping of the Epoch of Reionization

Abstract

The Tomographic Ionized carbon Mapping Experiment (TIME) is a multi-phased experiment that will topographically map [CII] emission from the Epoch of Reionization. We are developing lithographed spectrometers that couple to TES bolometers in anticipation of the second generation instrument. Our design intentionally mirrors many features of the parallel SuperSpec project, inductively coupling power from a trunk-line microstrip onto half-wave resonators. The resonators couple to a rat-race hybrids that feeds TES bolometers. Our 25 channel prototype shows spectrally positioned lines roughly matching design with a receiver optical efficiency of 15-20%, a level that is dominated by loss in components outside the spectrometer.

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© 2014 SPIE. R. O'Brient would like to thank Oak Ridge Associated Universities for funding through the NASA Post-doctoral Program. All devices were fabricated in the Microdevices Laboratory (MDL) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We thank the Kavli Institute for Space Sciences (KISS) at Caltech for tomography study funding and funding for Abigail Crites in the KISS postdoctoral program.

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58244
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CaltechAUTHORS:20150615-104415390

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NASA Postdoctoral Program
Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS)

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2015-06-15
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Keck Institute for Space Studies , Physics Department
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Proceedings of SPIE
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9153