Optical Design and Analysis of Next Generation Instruments for Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Author: Grace E. Chesmore

Date of Defense: February 21, 2023

Chapters

• Introduction
• Instrument Overview
• Metamaterial Microwave Absorber (MMA) and its Cryogenic Applications
• Reflectometry Measurements of the Loss Tangent in Silicon at Millimeter Wavelengths
• The Simons Observatory: Characterizing the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver with Radio Holography
• The Simons Observatory: Characterizing the Small Aperture Telescope Receiver with Radio Holography
• HoloSim-ML: Machine Learning Applied to the Efficient Analysis of Radio Holography Measurements of Complex Optical Systems
• The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Beam Estimation for DR6 with Point Source Stacking
• Conclusion
• Appendix A: Open Source Holography
• Appendix B: Holography Receiver Polarization Through the Large Aperture Telescope Optics Tube
• Appendix C: Harmonic Transform of the On-Sky Beam