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An open-source readout for MKIDs

2010; SPIE; Volume: 7741; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1117/12.856832

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Ran Duan, S. McHugh, B. Serfass, Benjamin A. Mazin, A. Merrill, S. R. Golwala, T. P. Downes, Nicole G. Czakon, Peter K. Day, Jiansong Gao, Jason Glenn, M. Hollister, H. G. LeDuc, Philip R. Maloney, Omid Noroozian, Hien T. Nguyen, Jack Sayers, J. Schlaerth, Seth R. Siegel, John E. Vaillancourt, Anastasios Vayonakis, P. Wilson, J. Žmuidzinas,

Scientific Research and Discoveries

This paper will present the design, implementation, performance analysis of an open source readout system for arrays of microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKID) for mm/submm astronomy. The readout system will perform frequency domain multiplexed real-time complex microwave transmission measurements in order to monitor the instantaneous resonance frequency and dissipation of superconducting microresonators. Each readout unit will be able to cover up to 550 MHz bandwidth and readout 256 complex frequency channels simultaneously. The digital electronics include the customized DAC, ADC, IF system and the FPGA based signal processing hardware developed by CASPER group. 1-7 The entire system is open sourced, and can be customized to meet challenging requirement in many applications: e.g. MKID, MSQUID etc.