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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