Print Email Facebook Twitter Superconducting On-Chip Spectrometery for Millimeter-submillimeter Wave Astronomy Title Superconducting On-Chip Spectrometery for Millimeter-submillimeter Wave Astronomy Author Endo, A. Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Microelectronics Date 2015-03-01 Abstract Since the birth of astrophysics, astronomers have been using free-space optics to analyze light falling on Earth. In the future however, thanks to the advances in photonics and nanoscience/nanotechnology, much of the manipulation of light might be carried out using not optics but confined waveguides, or circuits, on a chip. This new generation of instruments will be not only extremely compact, but also powerful in performance because the integration enables a greater degree of multiplexing. The benefit is especially profound for space- or air-borne observatories, where size, weight, and mechanical reliability are of top priority. Recently, several groups around the world are trying to integrate ultra-wideband (UWB), low-resolution spectrometers for millimeter-submillimeter waves onto microchips, using superconducting microelectronics. The scope of this Paper is to provide a general introduction and a review of the state-of-the-art of this rapidly advancing field. Subject spectroscopymillimeter wavesubmillimeter wavesuperconducting electronicsastronomical instrumentation To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:919bb1f3-fc17-4b16-b7c2-53768206170b Publisher Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Embargo date 2015-09-01 ISSN 0916-8524 Source http://doi.org/10.1587/transele.E98.C.219 Source IEICE Transactions on Electronics, E98.C (3), 2015 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2015 Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Files PDF 319875.pdf 598.44 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:919bb1f3-fc17-4b16-b7c2-53768206170b/datastream/OBJ/view