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20202026
most citedLiteBIRD: JAXA's new strategic L-class mission for all-sky surveys of cosmic microwave background polarization

143 citations · 302 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

physics.optics2026

Femtosecond-to-millisecond holographic imaging of laser ablation dynamics

Shotaro Kawano, Keiichiro Toda, Miu Tamamitsu +3

Femtosecond laser ablation redistributes optically deposited energy across electronic, structural, mechanical, and thermal degrees of freedom over timescales from femtoseconds to m…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Tellurium Metasurface Beam Splitter with Pulse Laser-Controlled Anisotropy

Takuto Hiraoka, Mizuho Matoba, Yuta Kobayashi +5

Laser-programmable optical anisotropy offers a new route to developing reconfigurable metasurfaces without conventional nanofabrication processes. Here, we demonstrate a lithograph…

astro-ph.IM2026

3D Printed Alumina as a Millimeter-Wave Optical Element

Rex Lam, Scott Cray, Sam Dietterich +10

We present millimeter and sub-millimeter room temperature transmission and loss measurements of 3D printed alumina disc and of a disc with one-sided 3D printed sub-wavelength struc…

astro-ph.IM2026★ 1 cited

Silicon-based vacuum window for millimeter and submillimeter-wave astrophysics

Ryota Takaku, Scott Cray, Kosuke Aizawa +7

We designed, fabricated, and characterized the properties of a silicon-based vacuum window suitable for millimeter-wave astrophysical applications. The window, which has a diameter…

astro-ph.IM2025

Laser ablated sub-wavelength structure anti-reflection coating on an alumina lens

Shaul Hanany, Scott Cray, Samuel Dietterich +12

We used laser ablation to fabricate sub-wavelength structure anti-reflection coating (SWS-ARC) on a 5 cm diameter alumina lens. With an aspect ratio of 2.5, the SWS-ARC are designe…

astro-ph.IM2025

Prototype sub-wavelength structure anti-reflection coating on alumina filters for ground-based CMB telescopes

Kosuke Aizawa, Ryosuke Akizawa, Scott Cray +8

We present designs and fabrication of sub-wavelength anti-reflection (AR) structures on alumina for infrared absorptive filters with passbands near 30, 125, and 250 GHz. These band…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 35 cited

Probing Cosmic Inflation with the LiteBIRD Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Survey

LiteBIRD Collaboration, E. Allys, K. Arnold +188

LiteBIRD, the Lite (Light) satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection, is a space mission for primordial cosmology and…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

A Large Diameter Millimeter-Wave Low-Pass Filter Made of Alumina with Laser Ablated Anti-Reflection Coating

Ryota Takaku, Qi Wen, Scott Cray +14

We fabricated a 302 mm diameter low-pass filter made of alumina that has an anti-reflection coating (ARC) made with laser-ablated sub-wavelength structures (SWS). The filter has be…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 7 cited

Overview of the Medium and High Frequency Telescopes of the LiteBIRD satellite mission

L. Montier, B. Mot, P. de Bernardis +232

LiteBIRD is a JAXA-led Strategic Large-Class mission designed to search for the existence of the primordial gravitational waves produced during the inflationary phase of the Univer…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 143 cited

LiteBIRD: JAXA's new strategic L-class mission for all-sky surveys of cosmic microwave background polarization

M. Hazumi, P. A. R. Ade, A. Adler +233

LiteBIRD, the Lite (Light) satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection, is a space mission for primordial cosmology and…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 12 cited

Concept Design of Low Frequency Telescope for CMB B-mode Polarization satellite LiteBIRD

Y. Sekimoto, P. A. R. Ade, A. Adler +232

LiteBIRD has been selected as JAXA's strategic large mission in the 2020s, to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) -mode polarization over the full sky at large angular…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 25 cited

Broadband, millimeter-wave anti-reflective structures on sapphire ablated with femto-second laser

R. Takaku, S. Hanany, H. Imada +13

We designed, fabricated, and measured anti-reflection coating (ARC) on sapphire that has 116% fractional bandwidth and transmission of at least 97% in the millimeter wave band. The…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 78 cited

Updated design of the CMB polarization experiment satellite LiteBIRD

H. Sugai, P. A. R. Ade, Y. Akiba +216

Recent developments of transition-edge sensors (TESs), based on extensive experience in ground-based experiments, have been making the sensor techniques mature enough for their app…