Bolometric Interferometry (BI) is one of the most promising techniques for precise measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background polarization. In this paper, we present the results of DIBO (Demonstrateur d'Interferometrie Bolometrique), a single-baseline demonstrator operating at 90 GHz, built to proof the validity of the BI concept applied to a millimeter-wave interferometer. This instrument has been characterized in the laboratory with a detector at room temperature and with a 4 K bolometer. This allowed us to measure interference patterns in a clean way, both (1) rotating the source and (2) varying with time the phase shift among the two interferometer's arms. Detailed modelisation has also been performed and validated with measurements.
@article{arxiv.0902.0385,
title = {A demonstrator for bolometric interferometry},
author = {Adnan Ghribi and Andrea Tartari and Silvia Galli and Michel Piat and Eric Breelle and Jean-Christophe Hamilton and Sebastiano Spinelli and Massimo Gervasi and Mario Zannoni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.0385},
year = {2009}
}