An open-source readout for MKIDs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7741, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Duan, Ran ^a   McHugh, Sean ^b   Serfass, Bruno ^c   Mazin, Benjamin A ^b   Merrill, A ^b   Golwala, Sunil R ^a   Downes, Thomas P ^a   Czakon, Nicole G ^a   Day, Peter K ^d   Gao, Jiansong ^e   Glenn, Jason ^f   Hollister, Matthew I ^a   Leduc, Henry G ^d   Maloney, Philip R ^f   Noroozian, Omid ^a   Nguyen, Hien T ^d   Sayers, Jack ^d   Schlaerth, James A ^f   Siegel, Seth ^a   Vaillancourt, John E ^g   Vayonakis, Anastasios ^a   Wilson, Philip R ^d   Zmuidzinas, Jonas ^a   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^g Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy   (United States)

Author keywords

frequency domain multiplexed; MKID; readout; spectrometer

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX FREQUENCY; DIGITAL ELECTRONICS; ENTIRE SYSTEM; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; KINETIC INDUCTANCE DETECTORS; MICRO RESONATORS; MICROWAVE TRANSMISSION; MKID; MM/SUB-MM ASTRONOMY; OPEN SOURCES; OPEN-SOURCE; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PROCESSING HARDWARE; READOUT; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES;

ASTRONOMY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INFRARED DETECTORS; MULTIPLEXING; READOUT SYSTEMS; RESONANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

DETECTORS;

EID: 77956204804     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856832     Document Type: Conference Paper

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