MKID multicolor array status and results from DemoCam

Schlaerth, J.; Czakon, Nicole G.; Day, Peter; Downes, T. P.; Duan, Ran; Gao, Jiansong; Glenn, J.; Golwala, S. R.; Hollister, Matthew I.; Leduc, H. G.; Mazin, Benjamin A.; Maloney, Philip R.; Noroozian, Omid; Nguyen, Hien; Sayers, Jack; Siegel, Seth R.; Vaillancourt, John E.; Vayonakis, Anastasios; Wilson, P.; Žmuidzinas, J.

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“…The filter bandpasses are very constant from pixel to pixel and agree with predictions. The measured responsivities determined from sky dips (where the telescope zenith angle is systematically varied, thereby altering the loading as the optical depth through the atmosphere increases with airmass) agree with those derived from hot/cold loads, 16 confirming that the resonators behave as anticipated. Measurements while slewing the telescope in azimuth confirmed our laboratory measurements that the magnetic shield installed in the rebuilt DemoCam has reduced the response of the MKID resonators to negligible levels; in fact, the response is so small we have not yet accurately determined it.…”

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MUSIC for sub/millimeter astrophysics

Maloney¹,

Czakon

Day

et al. 2010

SPIE Proceedings

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MUSIC (the Multiwavelength Submillimeter kinetic Inductance Camera) is an instrument being developed for the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory by Caltech, JPL, the University of Colorado, and UCSB. MUSIC uses microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) -superconducting micro-resonators -as photon detectors. The readout is almost entirely at room temperature and is highly multiplexed. MUSIC will have 576 spatial pixels in four bands at 850, 1100, 1300 and 2000 microns. MUSIC is scheduled for deployment at the CSO in the winter of 2010/2011. We present an overview of the camera design and readout and describe the current status of the instrument and some results from the highly successful May/June 2010 observing run at the CSO with the prototype camera, which verified the performance of the complete system (optics, antennas/filters, resonators, and readout) and produced the first simultaneous 3-color observations with any MKID camera.

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“…16 The hybrid quarter-wave resonators have Lorentzian profiles (with unit transmission well away from resonance) and are designed to have intrinsically high Qs (> 10 4 ). For a resonator frequency f ∼ 3 GHz, the FWHM is only ∼ 100 kHz; hence it is possible to read out many resonators simultaneously in a few hundred MHz bandwidth.…”

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MUSIC for sub/millimeter astrophysics

Maloney¹,

Czakon

Day

et al. 2010

SPIE Proceedings

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“…Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors, or MKIDs [12], are an alternative cryogenic detector technology that has proven important for millimeter wave astrophysics [13,14] due to their sensitivity and the ease with which they can be multiplexed into large arrays. MKIDs use frequency domain multiplexing [15] that allows thousands of pixels to be read out over a single microwave cable.…”

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A superconducting focal plane array for ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared astrophysics

Mazin¹,

Bumble²,

Meeker³

et al. 2012

Opt. Express

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Abstract:Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors, or MKIDs, have proven to be a powerful cryogenic detector technology due to their sensitivity and the ease with which they can be multiplexed into large arrays. A MKID is an energy sensor based on a photon-variable superconducting inductance in a lithographed microresonator, and is capable of functioning as a photon detector across the electromagnetic spectrum as well as a particle detector. Here we describe the first successful effort to create a photon-counting, energy-resolving ultraviolet, optical, and near infrared MKID focal plane array. These new Optical Lumped Element (OLE) MKID arrays have significant advantages over semiconductor detectors like charge coupled devices (CCDs). They can count individual photons with essentially no false counts and determine the energy and arrival time of every photon with good quantum efficiency. Their physical pixel size and maximum count rate is well matched with large telescopes. These capabilities enable powerful new astrophysical instruments usable from the ground and space. MKIDs could eventually supplant semiconductor detectors for most astronomical instrumentation, and will be useful for other disciplines such as quantum optics and biological imaging.

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“…Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors, or MKIDs 8 , are an alternative cryogenic detector technology with sensitivity and ease of multiplexing initially demonstrated at millimeter wavelengths 9,10 . Intrinsic frequency domain multiplexing allows thousands of pixels to be read out over a single microwave cable 11 .…”

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Optical lumped element microwave kinetic inductance detectors

Marsden

Mazin

Bumble

et al. 2012

High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy V

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Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors, or MKIDs, have proven to be a powerful cryogenic detector technology due to their sensitivity and the ease with which they can be multiplexed into large arrays. An MKID is an energy sensor based on a photon-variable superconducting inductance in a lithographed microresonator. It is capable of functioning as both a photon detector across the electromagnetic spectrum and a particle detector. We have recently demonstrated the world's first photon-counting, energy-resolving, ultraviolet, optical, and near infrared MKID focal plane array in the ARCONS camera at the Palomar 200" telescope. Optical Lumped Element (OLE) MKID arrays have significant advantages over semiconductor detectors such as charge coupled devices (CCDs). They can count individual photons with essentially no false counts and determine the energy (to a few percent) and arrival time (to ≈ 1µs) of every photon, with good quantum efficiency. Initial devices were degraded by substrate events from photons passing through the Titanium Nitride (TiN) material of the resonator and being absorbed in the substrate. Recent work has eliminated this issue, with a solution found to be increasing the thickness of the TiN resonator from 20 to 60 nm.

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MKID multicolor array status and results from DemoCam

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MUSIC for sub/millimeter astrophysics

MUSIC for sub/millimeter astrophysics

A superconducting focal plane array for ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared astrophysics

Optical lumped element microwave kinetic inductance detectors

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