High-resolution chirp transform spectrometer for middle atmospheric microwave sounding

摘要: The development of microwave heterodyne receiver technologies like Superconductor-Insulator-Superconductor-(SIS) mixer and Hot-Electron-Bolometer (HEB) offers the possibility to detect a large number minor atmospheric constituents, which have been under detection limit before. requirements on functional performance spectrometers increased at same time. Chirp Transform Spectrometer (CTS) fulfills these requirements, because its high resolution, stability, linearity dynamic range has potential for future spaceborne applications due very low mass power consumption. status CTS Max-Planck-Institut fur Aeronomie (MPAE) will be described possible discussed.