Superconductor Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors: System Model of the Readout Electronics
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2009-06
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Alimenti, Federico
Ercoli, Mariano
Palazzari, Valeria
Roselli, Luca
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Mark
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Společnost pro radioelektronické inženýrství
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This paper deals with the readout electronics needed by superconductor Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs). MKIDs are typically implemented in the form of cryogenic-cooled high quality factor microwave resonator. The natural frequency of these resonators changes as a millimeter or sub-millimeter wave radiation impinges on the resonator itself. A quantitative system model of the readout electronics (very similar to that of a vector network analyzer) has been implemented under ADS environment and tested by several simulation experiments. The developed model is a tool to further optimize the readout electronic and to design the frequency allocation of parallel-connected MKIDs resonators. The applications of MKIDs will be in microwave and millimeter-wave radiometric imaging as well as in radio-astronomy focal plane arrays.
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Radioengineering. 2009, vol. 18, č. 2, s. 178-182. ISSN 1210-2512
http://www.radioeng.cz/fulltexts/2009/09_02_178_182.pdf
http://www.radioeng.cz/fulltexts/2009/09_02_178_182.pdf
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en