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Feedhorn development and scalability for Simons Observatory and beyond

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2018-09-21 v1

Abstract

The Simons Observatory (SO) will measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in both temperature and polarization over a wide range of angular scales and frequencies from 27-270 GHz with unprecedented sensitivity. One technology for coupling light onto the \sim50 detector wafers that SO will field is spline-profiled feedhorns, which offer tunability between coupling efficiency and control of beam polarization leakage effects. We will present efforts to scale up feedhorn production for SO and their viability for future CMB experiments, including direct-machining metal feedhorn arrays and laser machining stacked Si arrays.

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@article{arxiv.1809.07373,
  title  = {Feedhorn development and scalability for Simons Observatory and beyond},
  author = {Sara M. Simon and Joseph E. Golec and Aamir Ali and Jason Austermann and James A. Beall and Sarah Marie M. Bruno and Steve K. Choi and Kevin T. Crowley and Simon Dicker and Bradley Dober and Shannon M. Duff and Erin Healy and Charles A. Hill and Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho and Johannes Hubmayr and Yaqiong Li and Marius Lungu and Jeff McMahon and John Orlowski-Scherer and Maria Salatino and Suzanne Staggs and Edward J. Wollack and Zhilei Xu and Ningfeng Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.07373},
  year   = {2018}
}
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