Multitone waveform synthesis with a quantum voltage noise source

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 21, Issue 3 PART 1, 2011, Pages 681-686

  Benz, Samuel P ^a   Dresselhaus, Paul D ^a   Burroughs, Charles J ^a  

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

Author keywords

Digital analog conversion; Johnson noise; Josephson arrays; Noise measurement; Quantization; Terms Correlation; Thermometry

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL-ANALOG CONVERSION; JOHNSON NOISE; JOSEPHSON ARRAYS; NOISE MEASUREMENT; QUANTIZATION; TERMS-CORRELATION; THERMOMETRY;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; THERMOMETERS;

TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 79956336116     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2010.2083616     Document Type: Conference Paper

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