Prototype ALMA Band 5 Cartridge:Design and Performance
Paper in proceeding, 2009

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international astronomy facility, is a partnership of East Asia, Europe and North America in cooperation with the Republic of Chile and aims to build an interferometer radio telescope consisting of more than 60 antennas. The instrument is under construction at the Llano de Chajnantor, about 50 km east of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. This work presents a part of ALMA frontend, the development, design and performance of one of the frequency channels of the ALMA receiver, the Band 5 prototype cartridge for 163 – 211 GHz frequency band.

optics

ALMA receiver cartridge

cryogenics

2SB SIS mixer.

Author

Victor Belitsky

Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Advanced Receiver Development

Igor Lapkin

Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Advanced Receiver Development

Bhushan Billade

Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Advanced Receiver Development

Erik Sundin

Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Advanced Receiver Development

Alexey Pavolotskiy

Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Advanced Receiver Development

Denis Meledin

Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Advanced Receiver Development

Vincent Desmaris

Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Advanced Receiver Development

Magnus Strandberg

Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Advanced Receiver Development

Ricardo Finger

Olle Nyström

Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Advanced Receiver Development

Mathias Fredrixon

Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Advanced Receiver Development

Sven-Erik Ferm

Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Advanced Receiver Development

Hawal Marouf Rashid

Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Advanced Receiver Development

Proceedings of the 20TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY, Charlottesville, VA, USA, April 20-22, 2009, s. 2-5

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