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It has recently become possible to encode the quantum state of superconducting qubits and the position of nanomechanical oscillators into the states of microwave fields. However, to make an ideal measurement of the state of a qubit, or to…
The ongoing improvements of the advanced gravitational wave (GW) detectors are setting challenging requirements on instrument calibration. We report tests of a calibration technique, based on the well-known gravitation force, which has been…
A 64-channel mixed-mode ASIC, suitable for particle detectors of large dynamic range and high capacitance up to hundreds of pF, is presented here. Each channel features an analogue front-end for signal amplification and filtering, and a…
The High Frequency Instrument of Planck will map the entire sky in the millimeter and sub-millimeter domain from 100 to 857 GHz with unprecedented sensitivity to polarization ($\Delta P/T_{\tiny cmb} \sim 4\cdot 10^{-6}$) at 100, 143, 217…
A method for the calibration of a Silicon Position Sensitive Detector is described. From the combination of the signals collected at the ends of the resistive electrode, energy and angle of the hitting particle are reconstructed with a…
Quantizers play a critical role in digital signal processing systems. Recent works have shown that the performance of quantization systems acquiring multiple analog signals using scalar analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) can be…
Improving the power efficiency and spectral efficiency of communication systems has been one of the major research goals over the recent years. However, there is a tradeoff in achieving both goals at the same time. In this work, we consider…
Calibration is an important step towards building reliable IoT systems. For example, accurate sensor reading requires ADC calibration, and power monitoring chips must be calibrated before being used for measuring the energy consumption of…
A method for absolute calibration of a photon-number resolving detector producing analog signals as the output is developed using a twin beam. The method gives both analog-to-digital conversion parameters and quantum detection efficiency…
Superconducting quantum computer is manufactured based on semiconductor process which makes qubits integration possible. At the same time, this kind of qubit exhibits high performance fidelity, de-coherence time, scalability and requires a…
The PSEC4 custom integrated circuit was designed for the recording of fast waveforms for use in large-area time-of-flight detector systems. The ASIC has been fabricated using the IBM-8RF 0.13 micron CMOS process. On each of 6 analog…
Frequency response function (FRF) measurements are widely used in Gravitational Wave (GW) detectors, e.g., for the design of controllers, calibrating signals and diagnostic problems with system dynamics. The aim of this paper is to present…
Integrated quantum photonic circuits are becoming increasingly complex. Accurate calibration of device parameters and detailed characterization of the prepared quantum states are critically important for future progress. Here we report on…
The gravitational waveform of merging binary neutron stars encodes information about extreme states of matter. Probing these gravitational emissions requires the gravitational-wave detectors to have high sensitivity above 1 kHz. Fortunately…
Various applications of quantum devices call for an accurate calibration of cryogenic amplification chains. To this end, we present a convenient calibration scheme and use it to accurately measure the total gain and noise temperature of an…
With the advent of gravitational-wave astronomy and the discovery of more compact binary coalescences, data quality improvement techniques are desired to handle the complex and overwhelming noise in gravitational wave (GW) observational…
The memo describes the methods used to track the long-term gain variations in the NuSTAR detectors. It builds on the analysis presented in Madsen et al. (2015) using the deployable calibration source to measure the gain drift in the NuSTAR…
We introduce the waveform capture device (WCD), a flexible measurement system capable of recording complex digital signals on trillionth-of-a-second (ps) time scales. The WCD is implemented via modular code on an off-the-shelf…
This paper discusses a fast algorithm for analyzing the phases of a multi-tone phase calibration signal. The multi-tone method is superior to its single-tone counterpart. The PCal signal is a wide-band frequency comb derived from an…
The QCLAM electron spectrometer at the S-DALINAC electron accelerator at Technische Universit\"at Darmstadt has been extended by the DAGOBERT $\gamma$-detector array consisting of fast timing and high efficiency LaBr$_3$:Ce detectors to…