Design of Quasi-optical System for Ground-based Astronomical Cameras

Space Research Organisation of the Netherlands (SRON) in collaboration with TU Delft and Max Planck Institute developed a kilo pixel imaging camera for APEX telescope, AMKID, operating at dual bands of 350 and 850 GHz. AMKID cabin (warm) and cryogenic (cold) Quasi-optical systems impose volume, complexity and scalability complications on this instrument (and its next generation).

In this MSc. project we will first derive the design guidelines of the future large field of view ground-based FIR cameras based on lens-absorber detectors. Secondly, we will apply our in-house advanced analysis techniques to design a compact cryogenic Quasi-optical system to realise a wide field-of-view camera for the next generation of AMKID instrument.

MSc Thesis Project

• Deriving the design guidelines for compact absorber-based imaging systems for ground-based FIR astronomy.
• Employing our in-house Quasi-optics analysis techniques (e.g. Coherent Fourier Optics, sequential Geometrical Optics, asymmetric lens shaping optimization) to design an absorber based QO system for the next generation of the AMKID instrument

Supervisory team: Shahab Dabironezare, Jochem Baselmans, Alexandra Mavropoulou (PhD), Daan Roos (PhD

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