Abstract: The invention relates to an imaging device to be used with millimeter and/or sub-millimeter radiation comprising at least a pair of substrates, at least one of which is patterned on at least one surface with a patterning defining at least one radiation detector, each radiation detector comprising: an antenna adapted to receive millimeter and/or sub-millimeter electromagnetic radiation, a mixer channel coupled to said antenna and in communication with a via extending through a substrate for connection to a signal output, a mixer comprising filters being mounted in the mixer channel for extracting an intermediate frequency signal in dependence upon said radiation received by the antenna, a waveguide structure coupled to said mixer and having a signal input for connection to a local oscillator.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 27, 2003
Date of Patent:
March 10, 2009
Assignee:
Agence Spatiale Europeenne
Inventors:
Dario Calogero Castiglione, Luisa Deias, Inigo Ederra-Urzainqui, David Brian Haskett, Derek Jenkins, Alexandre Vincent Samuel Bernard Laisne, Alec John McCalden, James Peter O'Neil, Jorge Teniente-Vallinas, Frank Van De Water, Alfred A. Zinn, Peter De Maagt, Chris Mann