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A widely tunable parametric amplifier based on a SQUID array resonator

Superconductivity 2008-11-17 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We create a Josephson parametric amplifier from a transmission line resonator whose inner conductor is made from a series SQUID array. By changing the magnetic flux through the SQUID loops, we are able to adjust the circuit's resonance frequency and, consenquently, the center of the amplified band, between 4 and 7.8 GHz. We observe that the amplifier has gains as large as 28 dB and infer that it adds less than twice the input vacuum noise.

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@article{arxiv.0706.2373,
  title  = {A widely tunable parametric amplifier based on a SQUID array resonator},
  author = {M. A. Castellanos-Beltran and K. W. Lehnert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.2373},
  year   = {2008}
}
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