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The optical imaging TES detector array: Considerations for a cryogenic imaging instrument

✍ Scribed by T.J. Bay; J.A. Burney; J. Barral; P.L. Brink; B. Cabrera; J.P. Castle; A.J. Miller; S.W. Nam; R.W. Romani; A. Tomada

Book ID
103855368
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
165 KB
Volume
559
Category
Article
ISSN
0168-9002

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✦ Synopsis

A Stanford/NIST collaboration is developing an imaging detector suitable for IR/optical/UV astronomical observations based on the Transition Edge Sensor, a cryogenic quantum microcalorimeter. Currently, the 32 pixel detector can in time and energy resolve single photons with high event rates Γ°Dto1 ms and DE FWHM $0:16 eV at 2.33 eV and more than 10 kHz/pixel). We report on current progress with the first imaging TES instrument, focusing on recent advances in instrumentation including focusing, reflection masking and infrared filtering.

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Our research group has successfully developed photon detectors capable of both time-stamping and energy-resolving individual photons at very high rates in a wide band from the near-IR through optical and into the near-UV. We have fabricated 32-pixel arrays of these Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) devic