Closed cycle cooling of infrared detectors to 250 mK

R. S. Bhatia; S. T. Chase; W. C. Jones; B. G. Keating; A. E. Lange; P. V. Mason; B. J. Philhour; G. Sirbi

doi:10.1016/S0011-2275(02)00010-3

Closed cycle cooling of infrared detectors to 250 mK

R. S. Bhatia, S. T. Chase, W. C. Jones, B. G. Keating, A. E. Lange, P. V. Mason, B. J. Philhour, G. Sirbi

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Abstract

We have designed and built a cryogenic system which uses no expendable liquid cryogens and consists of a three-stage cryocooler together with a three-stage sorption cooler to achieve a base temperature of 239 mK. We achieve a temperature of 250 mK at the expected 0.5 μW loading. The duty cycle of the sorption cooler alone is 93%. The cryogenic system is designed for autonomous cycling and operation, and will be used to cool the detectors and optics on the Polatron instrument to observe the 2.7 K cosmic microwave background.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	113-122
Number of pages	10
Journal	Cryogenics
Volume	42
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0011-2275(02)00010-3
State	Published - Feb 2002
Externally published	Yes

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General Materials Science
General Physics and Astronomy

Keywords

Gifford-McMahon
He Systems
Infrared detectors
Joule-Thomson Coolers
Sorption Coolers

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Closed cycle cooling of infrared detectors to 250 mK

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