Photonics (Mar 2024)

Development of Cryogenic Systems for Astronomical Research

  • Yuri Balega,
  • Oleg Bolshakov,
  • Aleksandr Chernikov,
  • Aleksandra Gunbina,
  • Valerian Edelman,
  • Mariya Efimova,
  • Aleksandr Eliseev,
  • Artem Krasilnikov,
  • Igor Lapkin,
  • Ilya Lesnov,
  • Mariya Mansfeld,
  • Mariya Markina,
  • Evgenii Pevzner,
  • Sergey Shitov,
  • Andrey Smirnov,
  • Mickhail Tarasov,
  • Nickolay Tyatushkin,
  • Anton Vdovin,
  • Vyacheslav Vdovin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics11030257
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 3
p. 257

Abstract

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The article presents a brief review of cooling systems that ensure various temperature levels (from 0.1 K to 230 K) for radio astronomical receivers of photonic and electronic (or optical and radio) devices. The features of various cooling levels and the requirements for the design of the cooling systems are considered in detail, as well as the approaches to designing interfaces for cooled receivers: vacuum, cryogenic, electrical, mechanical, optical, and other interfaces required for effective operation. The presented approaches to design are illustrated by a series of joint developments of the authors carried out over the past 45 years, including those produced over the past year.

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