Polarisation Sensitive Bolometers
Polarization Sensitive Bolometers (PSB) were developed especially for this project. They are very similar to spider-web bolometers but for the grid that consist mainly of parallel resistive wires that absorb only the polarized component with electrical field parallel to the wires. A second absorber with perpendicular wires detects the other component.

PSB description

Polarisation Sensitive Bolometer
All the optics has to be consistent with this design. In particular, it has to properly keep the polarization of the transmitted wave.
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