Jonas Zmuidzinas, California Institute of Technology
Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
Professor
Pasadena, California
jonas@submm.caltech.edu
Office:
(626) 395-6229
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An expert in submillimeter astronomy and instrumentation, Jonas Zmuidzinas specializes in superconducting detectors and imaging arrays, submillimeter and far-infrared spectroscopy, and airborne astronomy. With JPL senior research scientist Henry "Rick" LeDuc, Zmuidzinas invented MKIDs (microwave ...
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Bio/Research
An expert in submillimeter astronomy and instrumentation, Jonas Zmuidzinas specializes in superconducting detectors and imaging arrays, submillimeter and far-infrared spectroscopy, and airborne astronomy. With JPL senior research scientist Henry "Rick" LeDuc, Zmuidzinas invented MKIDs (microwave kinetic inductance detectors), which are superconducting photon detectors. These detectors captured their first data on the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory in 2007. An array of MKIDs will be used in CCAT, a 25-meter submillimeter-wavelength observatory to be built in Chile's Atacama Desert. Zmuidzinas also co-invented a novel cryogenic spectrometer for redshift measurements at millimeter-wavelengths called ZSPEC. He invents and develops millimeter-wavelength focal planes for measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background. He developed a spectrometer for submillimeter and far-infrared wavelengths used in the SOFIA airborne observatory.
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