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Published December 1981 | public
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Imaging Antenna Arrays

Abstract

A far-infrared imaging antenna array has been demonstrated for the first time. The array is a line of evaporated silver bow-tie antennas on a fused-quartz substrate with bismuth-micro-bolometer detectors. The measured optical transfer function shows that the system is diffraction-limited. This imaging array should find direct application in fusion plasma diagnostics. If the microbolometers can be replaced by more sensitive diode detectors, the array should also find application in radiometry and radar.

Additional Information

© 1981 IEEE. We appreciate the support of the Department of Energy under contract DE-AM03-765F-00010. We would like to thank Professor S.E. Schwarz at U.C. Berkeley for helping us with the mask making, Professor N.C. Luhmann, Jr., and Dr. W.A. Peebles at UCLA for the loan of evaporators and facilities, and Professor O. Staffsed at UCLA for suggesting that silver would be a better material for leads than gold.

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