Repurposing ROACH-1 boards for prototyping of readout systems for optical-NIR MKIDs

Oisín Creaner; Colm Bracken; Jack Piercy; Gerhard Ulbricht; Eoin Baldwin; Mario De Lucia; Tom Ray

doi:10.1117/12.2626985

Repurposing ROACH-1 boards for prototyping of readout systems for optical-NIR MKIDs

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2023-01-18 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors

Authors: Oisín Creaner , Colm Bracken , Jack Piercy , Gerhard Ulbricht , Eoin Baldwin , Mario De Lucia , Tom Ray

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Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) are cryogenic photon detectors and are attractive because they permit simultaneous time, energy and spatial resolution of faint astronomical sources. We present a cost-effective alternative to dedicated (e.g. analogue) electronics for prototyping readout of single-pixel Optical/NIR MKIDs by repurposing existing and well-known ROACH-1 boards. We also present a pipeline that modernises previously-developed software and data frameworks to allow for extensiblity to new applications and portability to new hardware (e.g. Xilinx ZCU111 or 2x2 RFSoC boards).

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superconducting quantum interference devices

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@article{arxiv.2301.06893,
  title  = {Repurposing ROACH-1 boards for prototyping of readout systems for optical-NIR MKIDs},
  author = {Oisín Creaner and Colm Bracken and Jack Piercy and Gerhard Ulbricht and Eoin Baldwin and Mario De Lucia and Tom Ray},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.06893},
  year   = {2023}
}

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7 pages, 4 figures, Presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montr\'eal, Qu\'ebec, Canada

Repurposing ROACH-1 boards for prototyping of readout systems for optical-NIR MKIDs

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