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Search Publications by: Erich N. Grossman (Fed)

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A W-band polarization converter and isolator

June 6, 2007
Author(s)
Charles Dietlein, A. Luukanen, Zoya Popovic, Erich N. Grossman
This paper presents a 95-GHz printed low-loss linear-to-circular polarizer designed as a component of an active direct-detection millimeter-wave imaging system. The periodic printed structure presents different reactances to the TE and TM polarizations

Broaband THz aqueous blackbody calibration source

April 9, 2007
Author(s)
Charles Dietlein, Zoya Popovic, Erich N. Grossman
We describe a broadband calibration source for the millimeter-wave to terahertz (THz) frequency range, the Aqueous Blackbody Calibration (ABC) source. The blackbody in this design is a body of water, which is extremely absorptive at these frequencies, held

Performance comparison of Nb and NbN antenna-coupled microbolometers

April 9, 2007
Author(s)
Charles Dietlein, A. Luukanen, J. S. Penttila, H. Sipola, L. Gronberg, H. Seppa, P. Helisto, Erich N. Grossman
We report the experimental results of a comparison between free-standing Nb and NbN microbolometer bridges coupled to equiangular spiral antennas on Si substrates. Because of the difference in material resistivity, bolometer resistance and aspect ratio is

Spectral decomposition of ultra-wide-band terahertz imagery

April 9, 2007
Author(s)
Erich N. Grossman, Charles Dietlein, Jonathan Chisum, A. Luukanen, J. E. Bjarnason, E. R. Brown
We investigate the spectral response of a THz imaging system based on ultrawideband cryogenic microbolometers. The bandwidth if this system, nominally 0.2 - 1.8 THz, is broad enough to span large variations (>10 dB) in clothing transmittance and

Phenomenology of Passive Broadband Terahertz Images

February 15, 2006
Author(s)
Charles Dietlein, A. Luukanen, Francois Meyer, Zoya Popovic, Erich N. Grossman
Images acquired by a 105-mK noise equivalent temperature difference (NETD) scanned single-pixel broadband 0.1-1 THz passive system are analyzed with two specific parameters of interest in mind. First, the minimum system noise level for clothing feature

Terahertz circular variable filters

February 15, 2006
Author(s)
Erich N. Grossman, Charles Dietlein, A. Luukanen
We describe a novel class of millimeter-wave and terahertz monochrometers based on adiabatically tuned frequency-selective surfaces. They are analogous to the circular-variable filters commonly used in the infrared for low to moderate resolution

Antenna coupled niobium bolometers for 10 (mu)m radiation detection

June 1, 2005
Author(s)
Robert Hadfield, Aaron J. Miller, Sae Woo Nam, Erich N. Grossman, Robert E. Schwall,
We report on the fabrication and testing of antenna-coupled niobium bolometers for 10-micron wavelength radiation detection. We use 20 nm thick Nb films on oxidized Si substrates. The bolometer design consists of a 1 micron x 1 micron Nb microbridge

Holographic microantenna array metrology

May 19, 2005
Author(s)
Erich N. Grossman, Arttu Luukanen, Aaron J. Miller
We describe a holographic or "phaseless" technique for measurement of complex antenna patterns that is particularly suited to planar antennas at very high frequencies -mm-wave thru long-wave infrared -where phase coherent detection is impractical. It has