Photonic technologies offer numerous functionalities that can be used to realize
astrophotonic instruments. The most spectacular example to date is the ESO Gravity …

Aims. Future actively cooled space-borne observatories for the far-infrared, loosely defined
as a 1–10 THz band, can potentially reach a sensitivity limited only by background radiation …

The experiment for cryogenic large-aperture intensity mapping (EXCLAIM) is a balloon-
borne telescope designed to survey star formation in windows from the present to z= 3.5 …

ABSTRACT The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is
a balloon-borne cryogenic telescope that will survey the spectrum of diffuse emission from …

This work describes the optical design of the EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture
Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM). EXCLAIM is a balloon-borne telescope that will measure …

The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a balloon-
borne far-infrared telescope that will survey galactic formation history over cosmological time …

The separation and optimization of noise components is critical to microwave-kinetic
inductance detector (MKID) development. We analyze the effect of several changes to the …

Context. Integrated superconducting spectrometers (ISSs) for wide-band submillimeter
(submm) astronomy use quasi-optical systems for coupling radiation from the telescope to …

The current state of far-infrared astronomy drives the need to develop compact, sensitive
spectrometers for future space and ground-based instruments. Here we present details of …

We describe a testbed to characterize the optical response of compact superconducting on-
chip spectrometers in development for the EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture …