Title :
Design of high gain THz smooth walled feed horns for CCAT heterodyne camera
Author :
Cortes-Medellin, German
Author_Institution :
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
Abstract :
We present here a smooth walled horn design for the 64 to 128 pixel CHAI the heterodyne camera to be used as one of the first light instruments of the 25m sub-millimeter telescope CCAT. The horn design provides a very high gain that matches the f/6 optics at CCAT Nasmyth foci.
Keywords :
heterodyne detection; image sensors; terahertz wave imaging; CCAT Nasmyth foci; CCAT heterodyne camera; CHAI; high gain terahertz smooth walled feed horns; Antenna radiation patterns; Apertures; Cameras; Feeds; Gain; Optics; Telescopes;
Conference_Titel :
Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2014 39th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tucson, AZ
DOI :
10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2014.6956432
