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Walker S, Sierra CE, Austermann JE, Beall JA, Becker DT, Dober BJ, Duff SM, Hilton GC, Hubmayr J, Van Lanen JL, McMahon JJ, Simon SM, Ullom JN, Vissers MR. Demonstration of 220/280 GHz Multichroic Feedhorn-Coupled TES Polarimeter. J Low Temp Phys 2020; 199:10.1007/s10909-019-02316-1. [PMID: 33487736 PMCID: PMC7818388 DOI: 10.1007/s10909-019-02316-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2019] [Accepted: 12/16/2019] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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We describe the design and measurement of feedhorn-coupled, transition-edge sensor (TES) polarimeters with two passbands centered at 220 GHz and 280 GHz, intended for observations of the cosmic microwave background. Each pixel couples polarized light in two linear polarizations by use of a planar orthomode transducer and senses power via four TES bolometers, one for each band in each linear polarization. Previous designs of this detector architecture incorporated passbands from 27 to 220 GHz; we now demonstrate this technology at frequencies up to 315 GHz. Observational passbands are defined with an on-chip diplexer, and Fourier-transform-spectrometer measurements are in excellent agreement with simulations. We find coupling from feedhorn to TES bolometer using a cryogenic, temperature-controlled thermal source. We determine the optical efficiency of our device is η = 77% ± 6% (75% ± 5%) for 220 (280) GHz, relative to the designed passband shapes. Lastly, we compare two power-termination schemes commonly used in wide-bandwidth millimeter-wave polarimeters and find equal performance in terms of optical efficiency and passband shape.
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Affiliation(s)
- S. Walker
- University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA
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- University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA
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- University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA
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Morgan KM, Becker DT, Bennett DA, Gard JD, Imrek J, Mates JAB, Pappas CG, Reintsema CD, Schmidt DR, Ullom JN, Weber J, Wessels A, Swetz DS. Expanding the Capability of Microwave Multiplexed Readout for Fast Signals in Microcalorimeters. J Low Temp Phys 2019; 199:10.1007/s10909-019-02250-2. [PMID: 33335337 PMCID: PMC7739880 DOI: 10.1007/s10909-019-02250-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2019] [Accepted: 11/01/2019] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Microwave SQUID multiplexing has become a key technology for reading out large arrays of X-ray and gamma-ray microcalorimeters with mux factors of 100 or more. The desire for fast X-ray pulses that accommodate photon counting rates of hundreds or thousands of counts per second per sensor drives system design toward high sensor current slew rate. Typically, readout of high current slew rate events is accomplished by increasing the sampling rate, such that rates of order 1MHz may be necessary for some experiments. In our microwave multiplexed readout scheme, the effective sampling rate is set by the frequency of the flux-ramp modulation (f r) used to linearize the SQUID response. The maximum current slew rate between samples is then nominally Φ 0 f r/2M in (where M in is the input coupling) because it is generally not possible to distinguish phase shifts of > π from negative phase shifts of < -π. However, during a pulse, we know which direction the current ought to be slewing, and this makes it possible to reconstruct a pulse where the magnitude of the phase shift between samples is > π. We describe a practical algorithm to identify and reconstruct pulses that exceed this nominal slew rate limit on the rising edge. Using pulses produced by X-ray transition-edge sensors, we find that the pulse reconstruction has a negligible impact on energy resolution compared to arrival time effects induced by under-sampling the rising edge. This technique can increase the effective slew rate limit by more than a factor of two, thereby either reducing the resonator bandwidth required or extending the energy range of measurable photons. The extra margin could also be used to improve crosstalk or to decrease readout noise.
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- K. M. Morgan
- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
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Wessels AL, Becker DT, Bennett DA, Gard JD, Hubmayr J, Jarosik N, Kotsubo VY, Mates JAB, Ullom JN. A 300-mK Test Bed for Rapid Characterization of Microwave SQUID Multiplexing Circuits. J Low Temp Phys 2018; 193:886-892. [PMID: 38515616 PMCID: PMC10956486 DOI: 10.1007/s10909-018-2048-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2017] [Accepted: 07/29/2018] [Indexed: 03/23/2024]
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Microwave SQUID multiplexing is a promising technique for multiplexing large arrays of transition edge sensors. A major bottleneck in the development and distribution of microwave SQUID multiplexer chips occurs in the time-intensive design testing and quality assurance stages. To obtain useful RF measurements, these devices must be cooled to temperatures below 500 mK. The need for a more efficient system to screen microwave multiplexer chips has grown as the number of chips requested by collaborators per year reaches into the hundreds. We have therefore assembled a test bed for microwave SQUID circuits, which decreases screening time for four 32-channel chips from 24 h in an adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator to approximately 5 h in a helium dip probe containing a closed cycle 3He sorption refrigerator. We discuss defining characteristics of these microwave circuits and the challenges of establishing an efficient testing setup for them.
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
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- University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
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- Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
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- University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
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