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A microwave lens with highly reduced reflectance, as compared to conventional dielectric lenses, is proposed. The lens is based on two-dimensional or three-dimensional transmission-line networks that can be designed to have an effective…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pekka Alitalo , Olli Luukkonen , Joni Vehmas , Sergei Tretyakov

In this study, we used parallel plane mirror resonator analogy to design all-dielectric optical resonator that is performed with the objective-first inverse design algorithm. Confinement of the light is succeeded via predefined objective…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-22 Mediha Tutgun , Done Yilmaz , Aydan Yeltik , Mirbek Turduev , Hamza Kurt

Active reflector is one of the key technologies for constructing large telescopes, especially for the millimeter/sub-millimeter radio telescopes. This article introduces a new efficient laser angle metrology system for the active reflector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Yong Zhang , Jie Zhang , Dehua Yang , Guohua Zhou , Aihua Li , Guoping Li

In this article, we describe the MIRI Imager module (MIRIM), which provides broad-band imaging in the 5 - 27 microns wavelength range for the James Webb Space Telescope. The imager has a 0"11 pixel scale and a total unobstructed view of…

This article presents research work on a spectroscopic survey telescope. Our idea is as follows: for such a telescope, a pure reflecting optical system is designed, which should have an aperture and a field of view (FOV) both as large as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-20 Ding-qiang Su , Hua Bai , Xiangyan Yuan , Xiangqun Cui

We presented the optimization procedures of the baffle mounted on the GroundBIRD telescope for measuring the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background~(CMB). The telescope employs dual mirror reflective telescopes installed in a…

Cosmological observations from ground at millimetre and sub-millimetre wavelengths are affected by atmospheric absorption and consequent emission. The low and high frequency (sky noise) fluctuations of atmospheric performance imply careful…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Marco De Petris , Simone De Gregori , Barbara Decina , Luca Lamagna , Juan R. Pardo

Current large-aperture cosmic microwave background (CMB) telescopes have nearly maximized the number of detectors that can be illuminated while maintaining diffraction-limited image quality. The polarization-sensitive detector arrays being…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Michael D. Niemack

The ASTRA Cassegrain Spectrophotometer and its automated 0.5-m telescope at Fairborn Observatory in Arizona will produce a large quantity of high precision stellar flux distributions. A separate paper (Adelman et al. 2007) presented a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Barry Smalley , Austin F. Gulliver , Saul J. Adelman

We construct an electron optical system to investigate Bragg diffraction (the crystal lattice plane, $10^{-2}$-$10^{-3}$ rad) with the objective lens turned off by adjusting the current in the intermediate lenses. A crossover was located on…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-06 Hiroshi Nakajima , Atsuhiro Kotani , Ken Harada , Shigeo Mori

X-ray interferometry has the potential to provide imaging at ultra high angular resolutions of 100 micro arc seconds or better. However, designing a practical interferometer which fits within a reasonable envelope and that has sufficient…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Willingale

We propose a double-resonant interferometric strategy for axion dark matter detection that combines microwave circuit resonance with Fabry--P\'erot optical enhancement. In a strong magnetic field, axion--photon mixing induces a weak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Spencer Green , Frank Wilczek

This manuscript presents an ultra-wideband Microstrip multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna covering the 2.4GHz to 6.5 GHz wireless local networks (WLAN) and Sub-6G bands. The applied MIMO antenna is composed of two symmetrical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-02 Adel Omrani

The scientific motivation is reviewed for a next generation radio observatory operating at frequencies between about 200 MHz and 2 GHz with about 2 orders of magnitude greater sensitivity than that which is currently available, together…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Robert Braun

We introduce a wide field hyperspectral microscope using the Fourier-transform approach. The interferometer is based on the Translating-Wedge-Based Identical Pulses eNcoding System (TWINS) [Opt. Lett. 37, 3027 (2012)], a common-path…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-26 A. Candeo , B. E. Nogueira de Faria , M. Erreni , G. Valentini , A. Bassi , A. M. de Paula , G. Cerullo , C. Manzoni

The separation of cosmological signal from astrophysical foregrounds is a fundamental challenge for any effort to probe the evolution of neutral hydrogen during the Cosmic Dawn and epoch of reionization (EoR) using the 21 cm hyperfine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-31 Naomi Orosz , Joshua S. Dillon , Aaron Ewall-Wice , Aaron R. Parsons , Nithyanandan Thyagarajan

The Submillimetron is the international project of the space telescope for astronomical studies at the submillimeter and infrared wavelengths using facilities of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS). The concept of…

A new method of angle estimation of multiple targets using a distributed interferometric antenna array and wideband space-time modulation is presented in this work. Interferometric array measurements of angle of arrival are generally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-24 Stavros Vakalis , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

The concept for space interferometry from Polar or Equatorial Circular Medium Earth Orbits (the PECMEO concept) is a promising way to acquire the image of the "shadow" of the event horizon of Sagittarius A* with an angular resolution of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-17 V. Kudriashov , M. Martin-Neira , I. Barat , P. Martin Iglesias , E. Daganzo-Eusebio , N. Alagha , V. Valenta

The Astro2020 decadal survey recommended an infrared, optical, ultra-violet (IR/O/UV) telescope with a $\sim$6~m inscribed diameter and equipped with a coronagraph instrument to directly image exoEarths in the habitable zone of their host…