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The ALMA Front End
John C. Webber
National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
Charlottesville VA 22903, USA
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ALMA Front End Organization
• Work is done by:– The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO, USA)
– The European Southern Observatory (ESO, Germany)
– The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ, Japan)
– The Herzberg Institute for Astrophysics (HIA, Canada)
– The Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM, France and Spain)
– The Netherlands Research School For Astronomy (NOVA, The Netherlands)
– Onsala Space Observatory (OSO, Sweden)
– Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL, UK)
– The Centro Astronomico de Yebes (CAY, Spain)
– The University of Cambridge / Astrophysics (CA, UK)
– The Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
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Front End Key Design Goals
• Noise performance as good as the best mm and sub-mm receivers
• Single sideband systems when possible, to minimize noise from the image sideband (all except Bands 9 & 10)
• Beam pointing controlled by mechanical tolerances (except Bands 3 & 4, which have mirrors on top of the cryostat)
• No moving parts except for cryogenics and amplitude calibration loads
• Short-term phase stability good enough for >90% coherence at 950 GHz
• Long-term phase stability good enough to go 30 minutes without instrumental calibration
• Ambient and heated RF loads for amplitude calibration
• WVR for atmospheric phase calibration by radiometry
• Rapid switching between bands for atmospheric phase calibration by position switching on a 10-second time scale
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Front End Key Programmatic Challenges
• Build 70 complete FE assemblies (66 on antennas plus 4 spares) and 3 more sets of spare subassemblies on time and on budget
• Distribute the work to multiple groups around the world and have everything play together when integrated
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Typical results for Bands 3, 6, 7, and 9. Bands 4, 8, and 10 are in development (dashed lines). The horizontal lines are the specification which applies over 80% of the band. Above 600 GHz, mixers are DSB.
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Front End Wiring Diagram
POWER M&C OFFSET LO REF IF OUT OPTICAL LO REF
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3D Model of Front End Assembly
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Front End Assembly Bottom View
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Cryostats
• Cryostat is 1 meter in diameter, mass ~450 kg• Sumitomo 3-stage refrigerator cools below 4K• Internal clamp rings provide thermal contact to cold stages
Cryostat and prototype chassis mounted on tilt table
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Optics
1. Optics design concept completed:• All ALMA Bands 1-10 and WVR pick off
mirror have been designed and incorporated into cartridge designs
• Detailed designs of all windows and IR filters• Widget space containing:
• amplitude calibration device• ¼ wave plate holder for Band 7• Solar filter
2. Design verification:• Complete physical optics calculations made for
bands 3-10• Prototypes tested warm except for bands 5 & 10• Cold tests: done during testing of assembly• Tests on the sky at 5000m elevation to begin
before the end of 2008
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Cartridge 7 Block Diagram
Cold Cartridge Warm Cartridge
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Cold Cartridges
Bands 3 (84-116 GHz), 6 (211-275 GHz), 7 (275-373 GHz), and 9 (602-720 GHz) SIS mixer receivers
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Cold Cartridges
Band 4, 125-169 GHz
(qualification model)
Band 8, 385-500 GHz
(4K stage in test dewar)
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Front End Local Oscillators
• Warm Cartridge Assemblies (WCA)– Contain YIG-Tuned Oscillator, Phase Lock Loop, Active Multiplier Chain, and
output Power Amplifiers
– Locked to output of photomixer driven by photonic signal from Back End
– Phase and amplitude noise meet ALMA specifications
– Band 3 WCA drives SIS mixer directly
– For other bands, WCAs drive cold frequency multipliers mounted in cold cartridge
• Frequency Multipliers– Wideband varistor designs from Virginia Diodes, Inc.
– Designs final for Bands 4, 6, 7, and 9
– Band 8 and 10 prototypes being tested
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183 GHz Water Vapor Radiometer
• Development status
– Two prototype WVRs (Cambridge and Onsala) were completed and fully tested
– Extensive testing was carried out at the SMA
– Final design is a single channel, Dicke-switched radiometer
– First production unit is under test and will be delivered in mid-2008
Dicke switched WVRRF Front End
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Ambient/Hot Load Amplitude Calibration Device
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Integration of Front EndWarm Optics
Band 3 Cartridge
Band 6 Cartridge
Band 9 Cartridge
Band 7 Cartridge
Cryostat
Front end chassis
Front end IF
FE M&C unit
Warm Cartridge Assembly Band 3
(1st LO, Bias, M&C)
Warm Cartridge Assembly Band 6
(1st LO, Bias, M&C)
Warm Cartridge Assembly Band 7
(1st LO, Bias, M&C)
Warm Cartridge Assembly Band 9
(1st LO, Bias, M&C)
FE Assembly
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Assembly and Test
The first FE assembly rear view with side panels removed (minus the LO Photonic Receiver)
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Principal Test Requirements
• Noise temperature• Image rejection• Beam patterns• Amplitude stability• Phase stability• IF output power• Gain flatness• Gain compression• Polarization alignment• Vacuum compatibility• Electromagnetic compatibility
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Schedule
• FE#01– Assembled and tested at the North American integration center
(Charlottesville, Virginia)– Delivered as an “engineering model” without phase stability
measurements (waiting for photonic reference test module)– Installed on a Mitsubishi antenna in November 2008
• FE#02– Assembled and tested at the East Asian integration center (Academica
Sinica, Taiwan)– Delivered as an “engineering model” without phase stability
measurements (waiting for photonic reference test module)• FE#03
– Assembled and under test at the European integration center (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, England)
– Will be delivered in February 2009 as an “engineering model” without phase stability measurements (waiting for photonic reference test module)
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Schedule
• FE#04-06– One each to be assembled and tested at the three integration centers– Qualification and verification of integration center equipment and
procedures– Delivery as fully qualified units June-August 2009
• FE #07-70– To be delivered over the period October 2009-October 2012– Output rate of each integration center: one every 51 days!