Workshop Overview:
This workshop will kick off a two-year technical development plan involving Caltech, JPL and a number of collaborating institutions that will substantially extend the state of the art in ultrasensitive photon detector arrays at far-infrared and near-infrared/optical wavelengths. At far-IR wavelengths, the detectors we propose to develop will approach (or exceed) single photon sensitivity. Meanwhile, in the near-IR and optical bands, we aim to demonstrate arrays of energy-resolving photon detectors that can be used to address some of the most dynamic areas in contemporary astrophysics, including searching for terrestrial exoplanets at near-IR and optical wavelengths, and, in the far-infrared, spectroscopically studying the physics of the population of distant, dusty, star-forming, optically faint but far-IR luminous galaxies that together account for half of the electromagnetic radiation produced since the Big Bang.
Team Leads
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Caltech
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Paul Goldsmith
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Jochem Baselmans — SRON
- Bruce Bumble — JPL
- Martino Calvo — Trento
- Saptarshi Chaudhuri — Caltech
- Peter Day — JPL
- Pascale Diener — SRON NL
- Tom Downes — Caltech
- Simon Doyle — Cardiff
- Ran Duan — Caltech
- Byeong Ho Eom — Caltech
- Jianson Gao — NIST
- Claudia Giordano — Trento
- Sunil Golwala — Caltech
- Matt Hollister — Caltech
- Kent Irwin — NIST
- Karl Jacobs — Universitaet zu Koeln
- Warren Johnson — JPL
- Teun Klapwijk — TU Delft
- Jacob Kooi — Caltech
- Rick Leduc — JPL
- Phil Lubin — UCSB
- Philip Mauskopf — Cardiff
- Ben Mazin — UCSB
- Chris McKenney — Caltech
- Dave Moore — Caltech
- Harvey Moseley — GSFC
- Omid Noroozian — Caltech
- Steve Padin — Caltech
- Dave Pappas — NIST
- Markus Roesch — IRAM
- Florian Schomacker — University of Cologne
- Erik Shirokoff — Berkeley
- Geoff Steeves — Victoria
- Loren Swenson — Caltech
- Tasos Vayonakis — Caltech
- Rebecca Wernis — Caltech
- David Woody — OVRO
- Jonas Zmuidzinas — Caltech
