A cryogenic continuously rotating half-wave plate mechanism for the POLARBEAR-2b cosmic microwave background receiver

Hill, C. A.; Kusaka, A.; Ashton, P.; Barton, P.; Adkins, T.; Arnold, K.; Bixler, B.; Ganjam, S.; Lee, A. T.; Matsuda, F.; Matsumura, T.; Sakurai, Y.; Tat, R.; Zhou, Y.

doi:10.1063/5.0029006

A cryogenic continuously rotating half-wave plate mechanism for the POLARBEAR-2b cosmic microwave background receiver

Journal Article · Wed Dec 09 00:00:00 EST 2020 · Review of Scientific Instruments

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0029006· OSTI ID:1844924

^[1]; Kusaka, A. ^[2]; Ashton, P. ^[3]; Barton, P. ^[4]; Adkins, T. ^[5]; Arnold, K. ^[6]; Bixler, B. ^[6]; Ganjam, S. ^[1]; Lee, A. T. ^[1]; ^[7]; Matsumura, T. ^[7]; Sakurai, Y. ^[7]; Tat, R. ^[1]; Zhou, Y. ^[5]

Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of Tokyo (Japan); Univ. of Tokyo, Chiba (Japan)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of Tokyo, Chiba (Japan)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
Univ. of Tokyo, Chiba (Japan)

In this report we present the design and laboratory evaluation of a cryogenic continuously rotating half-wave plate (CHWP) for the POLARBEAR-2b (PB-2b) cosmic microwave background receiver, the second installment of the Simons Array. PB-2b will observe at 5200 m elevation in the Atacama Desert of Chile in two frequency bands centered at 90 GHz and 150 GHz. In order to suppress atmospheric 1/f noise and mitigate systematic effects that arise when differencing orthogonal detectors, PB-2b modulates linear sky polarization using a CHWP rotating at 2 Hz. The CHWP has a 440 mm clear aperture diameter and is cooled to ≈50 K in the PB-2b receiver cryostat. It consists of a low-friction superconducting magnetic bearing and a low-torque synchronous electromagnetic motor, which together dissipate < 2 W. During cooldown, a grip-and-release mechanism centers the rotor to < 0.5 mm, and during continuous rotation, an incremental optical encoder measures the rotor angle with a noise level of 0.1 μrad/Hz. We discuss the experimental requirements for the PB-2b CHWP, the designs of its various subsystems, and the results of its evaluation in the laboratory. The presented CHWP has been deployed to Chile and is expected to see first light on PB-2b in 2020 or 2021.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers (LEADER); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE; USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1844924

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1734827

Journal Information:: Review of Scientific Instruments, Journal Name: Review of Scientific Instruments Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 91; ISSN 0034-6748

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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