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Completed TRL 2 (started at 2, targeting 2)
Our objective is to use cryogenic microshutter arrays as a new tool to enable kinetic inductance detector array mapping: matching of kinetic inductance detector resonance frequencies to their physical locations in the focal plane array. Our task is to develop the infrastructure needed to combine existing microshutter arrays and kinetic inductance detector arrays and to demonstrate the method.
The Probe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) and the Balloon Experiment for Galactic INfrared Science (BEGINS) developing large arrays of superconducting kinetic inductance detectors. The high spatial pixel density of these arrays makes it difficult to map each kinetic inductance detector resonant frequency to its physical location on the array. By combining existing kinetic inductance detector arrays with existing electrostatically actuated microshutter arrays, we will enable far-infrared kinetic inductance detector array mapping and characterization.
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