Meeting the Optical Requirements of Large Focal-Plane Arrays

• Main Author: Stark, A A
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Astrophysics and Astronomy; Dewar; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://cds.cern.ch/record/618721

Technological advances will allow the placement of many Terahertz detectors at the focal plane of a single telescope. For a telescope of a given diameter and wavelength of operation, there is a limit to the number of usable detectors imposed by diffraction and optical aberrations. These effects can...