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Superconducting standing$-$wave parametric amplifiers are crucial for the readout of microwave quantum devices. Despite significant improvements in recent years, the need to operate near an instability point imposes a fundamental…

We describe a microwave amplifier based on the Superconducting Low-inductance Undulatory Galvanometer (SLUG). The SLUG is embedded in a microstrip resonator, and the signal current is injected directly into the device loop. Measurements at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-30 D. Hover , Y. -F. Chen , G. J. Ribeill , S. Zhu , S. Sendelbach , R. McDermott

Superconducting resonator parametric amplifiers are potentially important components for a wide variety of fundamental physics experiments and utilitarian applications. We propose and realise an operating scheme that achieves amplification…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Songyuan Zhao , Stafford Withington , Christopher Thomas

In this paper, we introduce a method of using a double-layer resist lift-off process to prepare the capacitor dielectric layer for fabricating impedance-engineered Josephson parametric amplifiers (IMPAs). Compared with traditional…

Chip-based optical amplifiers can significantly expand the functionalities of photonic devices. In particular, optical-parametric amplifiers (OPAs), with engineerable gain-spectra, are well-suited for nonlinear-photonic applications.…

We present a compact, noise-resilient reconstructive spectrometer-on-a-chip that achieves high-resolution hyperspectral imaging across an extended near-infrared (NIR) range up to 1100nm. The device integrates monolithically fabricated…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-26 Ahasan Ahamed , Htet Myat , Amita Rawat , Lisa N McPhillips , M Saif Islam

Signal detection in large multiple-input multiple-output (large-MIMO) systems presents greater challenges compared to conventional massive-MIMO for two primary reasons. First, large-MIMO systems lack favorable propagation conditions as they…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Jiuyu Liu , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

Fast and high-fidelity qubit readout requires strong coupling between the readout resonator and the feedline. However, such coupling unavoidably enhances qubit decay through the Purcell effect. We present a four-pole broadband Purcell…

In this work, we design an advanced quantum readout architecture that integrates a four qubit superconducting chip with a novel parametric amplifier ended with analog front-end circuit. Unlike conventional approaches, this design eliminates…

We design and demonstrate a monolithically integrated silicon photonic multichannel optical hybrid for versatile broadband coherent reception, addressing the critical limitations of current wavelength multiplexed systems in scalability and…

SuperSpec is a novel on-chip spectrometer we are developing for multi-object, moderate resolution (R = 100 - 500), large bandwidth (~1.65:1) submillimeter and millimeter survey spectroscopy of high-redshift galaxies. The spectrometer…

In this work multilevel pattering capabilities of Substrate Conformal Imprint Lithography (SCIL) have been explored. A mix & match approach combining the high throughput of nanoimprint lithography with the excellent overlay accuracy of…

In this paper, we report a new scheme to amplify a microwave signal carried on a laser light at $\lambda$=852nm. The amplification is done via a semiconductor tapered amplifier and this scheme is used to drive stimulated Raman transitions…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Thomas Lévèque , Alexandre Gauguet , Walid Chaibi , Arnaud Landragin

We present the experimental demonstration of an impedance-engineered Josephson parametric amplifier (IEJPA) fabricated in a single-step lithography process. Impedance engineering is implemented using a lumped-element series LC circuit. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Lipi Patel , Samarth Hawaldar , Aditya Panikkar , Athreya Shankar , Baladitya Suri

Superconducting parametric amplifiers have great promise for quantum-limited readout of superconducting qubits and detectors. Until recently, most superconducting parametric amplifiers had been based on resonant structures, limiting their…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-13 Saptarshi Chaudhuri , Jiansong Gao , Kent Irwin

Quantum-limited Josephson parametric amplifiers play a pivotal role in advancing the field of circuit quantum electrodynamics by enabling the fast and high-fidelity measurement of weak microwave signals. Therefore, it is necessary to…

We report the realization of a bonded-bridge on-chip superconducting coil and its use in impedance-matching a highly ohmic quantum dot (QD) to a $\rm{3~GHz}$ measurement setup. The coil, modeled as a lumped-element $LC$ resonator, is more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 M. -C. Harabula , T. Hasler , G. Fülöp , M. Jung , V. Ranjan , C. Schönenberger

Superconducting Parametric Amplifiers (SPAs) have seen great interest in recent years due to their high gain and quantum limited noise performance. Among these amplifiers, resonant SPAs have been widely developed for experiments where ultra…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-30 V. Gilles , T. Sweetnam , B. Mohammadian , M. A. McCulloch , L. Piccirillo

Parametric amplification offers a route to overcoming intrinsic damping in spin-wave systems, a key challenge in the development of magnonic signal processing and computing technologies. Here we demonstrate the sustained amplification of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-22 Carson Rivard , Albrecht Jander , Pallavi Dhagat

High-fidelity qubit measurement is a critical element of all quantum computing architectures. In superconducting systems, qubits are typically measured by probing a readout resonator with a weak microwave tone that must be amplified before…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 M. Malnou , B. T. Miller , J. A. Estrada , K. Genter , K. Cicak , J. D. Teufel , J. Aumentado , F. Lecocq