Kalinauskaite, Eimante and Murphy, J.Anthony and McAuley, Ian and Trappe, Neil and McCarthy, Darragh and Bracken, Colm P. and Doherty, Stephen and Gradziel, Marcin and O'Sullivan, Créidhe and Wilson, Daniel and Peacocke, Tully and Maffei, Bruno and Lamarre, Jean-Michel and Ade, P.A.R. and Savini, Giorgio (2017) Radiation patterns of multimode feed-horn-coupled bolometers for FAR-IR space applications. In: Terahertz, RF, Millimeter, and Submillimeter-Wave Technology and Applications X. Proceedings of SPIE (10103). SPIE, Washington, USA, 101030N. ISBN 9781510606487

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Abstract

A multimode horn differs from a single mode horn in that it has a larger sized waveguide feeding it. Multimode horns can therefore be utilized as high efficiency feeds for bolometric detectors, providing increased throughput and sensitivity over single mode feeds, while also ensuring good control of the beam pattern characteristics. Although a cavity mounted bolometer can be modelled as a perfect black body radiator (using reciprocity in order to calculate beam patterns), nevertheless, this is an approximation. In this paper we present how this approach can be improved to actually include the cavity coupled bolometer, now modelled as a thin absorbing film. Generally, this is a big challenge for finite element software, in that the structures are typically electrically large. However, the radiation pattern of multimode horns can be more efficiently simulated using mode matching, typically with smooth-walled waveguide modes as the basis and computing an overall scattering matrix for the horn-waveguide-cavity system. Another issue on the optical efficiency of the detectors is the presence of any free space gaps, through which power can escape. This is best dealt with treating the system as an absorber. Appropriate reflection and transmission matrices can be determined for the cavity using the natural eigenfields of the bolometer cavity system. We discuss how the approach can be applied to proposed terahertz systems, and also present results on how the approach was applied to improve beam pattern predictions on the sky for the multi-mode HFI 857GHz channel on Planck.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	This paper was presented at SPIE OPTO, 30 Jan - 02 Feb 2017, San Francisco, California, United States.
Keywords:	Bolometers; Efficiency; Excitons; Finite element method; Horn antennas; Infrared detectors; Space applications; Submillimeter waves; Waveguides; Black body radiator; Bolometric detector; Electrically large; Finite element software; Optical efficiency; Reflection and transmission matrices; Scattering matrices; Terahertz systems; Terahertz waves;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Experimental Physics
Item ID:	11920
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2249869
Depositing User:	Dr. Neil Trappe
Date Deposited:	29 Nov 2019 12:02
Publisher:	SPIE
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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