Optimization of MKID noise performance via readout technique for astronomical applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7741, Issue , 2010, Pages

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

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors; Nonlinearity; Submillimeter

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER NOISE; ASTRONOMICAL APPLICATION; CARRIER POWER; DARK NOISE; DEVICE GEOMETRIES; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; FLUCTUATORS; FREQUENCY NOISE; INTERDIGITATED CAPACITORS; KINETIC INDUCTANCE DETECTORS; MULTIWAVELENGTH; NOISE CONTRIBUTIONS; NOISE MEASUREMENTS; NOISE PERFORMANCE; NON-LINEAR REGIMES; NON-LINEARITY; OFF-RESONANCE; PROS AND CONS; READOUT POWER; RESONATOR GEOMETRY; RESPONSIVITY; SUBMILLIMETERS; SURFACE DISTRIBUTIONS; SYSTEMATIC STUDY;

ASTRONOMY; INDUCTANCE; INFRARED DETECTORS; OPTIMIZATION; RESONATORS;

DETECTORS;

EID: 77956218594     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857866     Document Type: Conference Paper

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