Bandwidth and dynamic range of a widely tunable josephson parametric amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 944-947

  Castellanos Beltran, Manuel A ^a   Irwin, Kent D ^b   Vale, Leila R ^b   Hilton, Gene C ^b   Lehnert, Konrad W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gain measurement; Josephson amplifiers; Josephson arrays; Parametric amplifiers; SQUIDs

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RANGE; JOSEPHSON; JOSEPHSON AMPLIFIERS; JOSEPHSON ARRAYS; MICROWAVE CAVITY; NARROW BANDS; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SATURATION POWER; SERIES ARRAY; SIGNAL BANDWIDTH; WIDELY TUNABLE;

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; SQUIDS;

MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 68649123768     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2009.2018119     Document Type: Conference Paper

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