Superconductor Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors: System Model of the Readout Electronics

Radioengineering

关键词: Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors;    MKID;    superconductors;    microwave radiometers;    radioastronomy;    radiation detector;    resonators.;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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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