NIKEL_AMC: Readout electronics for the NIKA2 experiment

O. Bourrion; A. Benoit; J. L. Bouly; J. Bouvier; G. Bosson; M. Calvo; A. Catalano; J. Goupy; C. Li; J. F. Macías-Pérez; A. Monfardini; D. Tourres; N. Ponchant; C. Vescovi

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/11/11/P11001

NIKEL_AMC: Readout electronics for the NIKA2 experiment

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2016-12-21 v3 Instrumentation and Detectors

Authors: O. Bourrion , A. Benoit , J. L. Bouly , J. Bouvier , G. Bosson , M. Calvo , A. Catalano , J. Goupy , C. Li , J. F. Macías-Pérez , A. Monfardini , D. Tourres , N. Ponchant , C. Vescovi

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The New Iram Kid Arrays-2 (NIKA2) instrument has recently been installed at the IRAM 30 m telescope. NIKA2 is a state-of-art instrument dedicated to mm-wave astronomy using microwave kinetic inductance detectors (KID) as sensors. The three arrays installed in the camera, two at 1.25 mm and one at 2.05 mm, feature a total of 3300 KIDs. To instrument these large array of detectors, a specifically designed electronics, composed of 20 readout boards and hosted in three microTCA crates, has been developed. The implemented solution and the achieved performances are presented in this paper. We find that multiplexing factors of up to 400 detectors per board can be achieved with homogeneous performance across boards in real observing conditions, and a factor of more than 3 decrease in volume with respect to previous generations.

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@article{arxiv.1602.01288,
  title  = {NIKEL_AMC: Readout electronics for the NIKA2 experiment},
  author = {O. Bourrion and A. Benoit and J. L. Bouly and J. Bouvier and G. Bosson and M. Calvo and A. Catalano and J. Goupy and C. Li and J. F. Macías-Pérez and A. Monfardini and D. Tourres and N. Ponchant and C. Vescovi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.01288},
  year   = {2016}
}

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