Design Philosophy

The design goals of the proposed instrument are to achieve the maximum sensitivity, sky-coverage, bandwidth, and tunability with the minimum of complexity and cost. To achieve these goals, we will utilize four new break-through technologies;

1. wide bandwidth hot-electron bolometers (HEBs)
2. laser micromachined waveguide components
3. a reliable, compact, high-power, submillimeter laser system
4. an efficient, broadband, high resolution, array AOS

We will first provide a brief decription of the proposed instrument and then describe how we will apply these new technologies to its construction.