12 papers
Development of TIFUUN: Terahertz Integral Field Units with Universal Nanotechnology
Akira Endo, Tom J. L. C. Bakx, Jochem J. A. Baselmans +50
TIFUUN (THz Integral Field Units with Universal Nanotechnology) is an ultra-wideband mm-submm wave imaging spectrometer that capitalizes on the highly scalable integrated supercond…
Enhanced electron-beam lithography to reduce the frequency scatter of 200-400 GHz superconducting microstrip resonators for on-chip filterbank spectrometers
L. G. G. Olde Scholtenhuis, D. J. Thoen, J. J. A. Baselmans +4
Integrated superconducting spectrometers (ISSs) provide the instantaneous bandwidth, sensitivity, and scalable architecture for large-scale spectroscopic surveys in submillimeter-w…
Coupled-Mode Equations with Arbitrary Mode Combinations for Kinetic-Inductance Superconducting Traveling-Wave Parametric Devices: Theory and Experimental Validation
F. Patricio Mena, Camilo Espinoza, Ryan O. Berriel +2
The coupled-mode equations (CMEs) have proven very successful in describing parametric processes in nonlinear optics. More recently, the same formulation has been used to model mic…
Advances in the Fabrication of On-chip Superconducting Integral Field Units for CMB and Line-Intensity Astronomy
L. G. G. Olde Scholtenhuis, D. Perez Capelo, K. Karatsu +7
Studying the polarization and spectral distortion of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in tandem with intensity fluctuations of the Cosmic Infrared Background (CIB) allows us t…
A High Efficiency Superconducting On-chip Filterbank with Directional Filters for Integral Field Units in the Sub-millimeter Regime
Louis H. Marting, Kenichi Karatsu, Leon G. G. Olde Scholtenhuis +8
Integrated superconducting spectrometers are developing to the point that they are enabling integral field units, providing large area spectral mapping capabilities for astronomy i…
AMKID -- a large KID-based camera at the APEX telescope
N. Reyes, A. Weiss, S. J. C. Yates +26
The thermal emission at sub-millimeter wavelengths carries unique information in many astronomical applications ranging from disks and planet formation around young stars, to galax…