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We describe the signal-processing firmware and software for a frequency-domain multiplexed (FDM) biasing and demodulation system that reads out Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometer arrays for mm-wavelength cosmology telescopes. This…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-21 Graeme Smecher , Francois Aubin , Eric Bissonnette , Matt Dobbs , Peter Hyland , Kevin MacDermid

A technological milestone for experiments employing Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers operating at sub-kelvin temperature is the deployment of detector arrays with 100s--1000s of bolometers. One key technology for such arrays is…

Digital frequency multiplexing (dfMux) is a readout architecture for transition edge sensor-based detector arrays and is used on telescopes including SPT-3G, POLARBEAR-2, and LiteBIRD. Here, we present recent progress and plans for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-17 Amy E. Lowitz , Amy N. Bender , Matthew A. Dobbs , Adam J. Gilbert

Digital Frequency-Domain Multiplexing (DfMux) is a technique that uses MHz superconducting resonators and Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) arrays to read out sets of Transition Edge Sensors. DfMux has been used by several…

Frequency domain multiplexing (fMux) is an established technique for the readout of transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers in millimeter-wavelength astrophysical instrumentation. In fMux, the signals from multiple detectors are read out on…

The next generation of space-based mm-wave telescopes, such as JAXA's LiteBIRD mission, require focal planes with thousands of detectors in order to achieve their science goals. Digital frequency-domain multiplexing (dfmux) techniques allow…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-26 Graeme Smecher , Jean-Francois Cliche , Matt Dobbs , Joshua Montgomery

The next generation of space-based mm-wave telescopes, such as JAXA's LiteBIRD mission, require focal planes with thousands of detectors in order to achieve their science goals. Digital frequency-domain multiplexing (dfmux) techniques allow…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-26 Graeme Smecher , Peter Cameron , Jean-Francois Cliche , Matt Dobbs , Joshua Montgomery

The next-generation of cryogenic neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments require increasingly fast readout in order to improve background discrimination. These experiments, operated as cryogenic calorimeters at $\sim$10 mK, are usually…

A microwave SQUID multiplexer ($\mu$MUX) has been optimized for coupling to large arrays of superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers. We present the scalable cryogenic multiplexer chip design in a 1820-channel multiplexer…

The scalability of most transition-edge sensor arrays is limited by the multiplexing technology which combines their signals over a reduced number of wires and amplifiers. In this Letter, we present and demonstrate a multiplexer design…

An FPGA based digital signal processing (DSP) system for biasing and reading out multiplexed bolometric detectors for mm-wavelength telescopes is presented. This readout system is being deployed for balloon-borne and ground based cosmology…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-05-13 Matt Dobbs , Eric Bissonnette , Helmuth Spieler

Microwave SQUID Multiplexing (uMUX) is a widely used technique in the low temperature detectors community as it offers high capacity of reading out large scale Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) arrays. In this paper, we propose a Sliding Flux…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-02-19 Guofu Liao , Congzhan Liu , Zhengwei Li , Daikang Yan , Xiangxiang Ren , Yongjie Zhang , Laiyu Zhang , Yu Xu , Shibo Shu , He Gao , Yifei Zhang , Xuefeng Lu , Xufang Li , He Xu , Di Wu

The digital frequency domain multiplexing (DfMux) technique is widely used for astrophysical instruments with large detector arrays. Detailed detector characterization is required for instrument calibration and systematics control. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-09 Yu Zhou , Tijmen de Haan , Hiroki Akamatsu , Daisuke Kaneko , Masashi Hazumi , Masaya Hasegawa , Aritoki Suzuki , Adrian T. Lee

Frequency-domain multiplexing (fMux) is an established technique for the readout of large arrays of transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers. Each TES in a multiplexing module has a unique AC voltage bias that is selected by a resonant…

Arrays of low-temperature microcalorimeters provide a promising technology for X-ray astrophysics: the imaging spectrometer. A camera with at least several thousand pixels, each of which has an energy-resolving power ($E/\Delta…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 H. Akamatsu , W. B. Doriese , J. A. B. Mates , B. D. Jackson

We are developing code-division multiplexing (CDM) systems for transition-edge sensor arrays with the goal of reaching multiplexing factors in the hundreds. We report on x-ray measurements made with a four-channel prototype CDM system that…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-05-04 J. W. Fowler , W. B. Doriese , G. C. Hilton , K. D. Irwin , D. R. Schmidt , G. M. Stiehl , D. S. Swetz , J. N. Ullom , L. R. Vale.

Arrays of hundreds or thousands of low temperature detectors have been deployed for many experiments, both bolometers for long wavelength applications and calorimeters for shorter wavelength applications. One challenge that is common to…

We present a method for precise monitoring of the loop gain of transition edge sensors (TES) under electrothermal feedback. The measurement is implemented on the ICE DfMux electronics and operates simultaneously with Digital Active Nulling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-08 T. de Haan , T. Adkins , M. Hazumi , D. Kaneko , J. Montgomery , G. Smecher , A. Suzuki , Y. Zhou

We report on the development and demonstration of a MHz frequency domain multiplexing (FDM) technology to read out arrays of cryogenic transition edge sensor (TES) X-ray microcalorimeters. In our FDM scheme, TESs are AC-biased at different…

EBEX was a long-duration balloon-borne experiment to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background. The experiment had three frequency bands centered at 150, 250, and 410 GHz and was the first to use a kilo-pixel array of…

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