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We present the conceptual design of the modular detector and readout system for the Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4 (CMB-S4) ground-based survey experiment. CMB-S4 will map the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the millimeter-wave…

Fast, high-fidelity, and quantum nondemolition (QND) qubit readout is an essential element of quantum information processing. For superconducting qubits, state-of-the-art readout is based on a dispersive cross-Kerr coupling between a qubit…

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Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) are highly scalable detectors that have demonstrated nearly background-limited sensitivity in the far-infrared from high-altitude balloon-borne telescopes and space-like laboratory…

We describe an instrument which can be used to analyze complex chemical mixtures at high resolution and high sensitivity. Molecules are collisionally cooled with helium gas at cryogenic temperatures (~ 4-7 K), and subsequently detected…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-22 Jessica P. Porterfield , Lincoln Satterthwaite , Sandra Eibenberger , David Patterson , Michael C. McCarthy

While single-pixel superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) have demonstrated remarkable efficiency and timing performance from the UV to near-IR, scaling these devices to large imaging arrays remains challenging. Here, we…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-02-26 Jason P. Allmaras , Emma E. Wollman , Andrew D. Beyer , Ryan M. Briggs , Boris A. Korzh , Bruce Bumble , Matthew D. Shaw

SQUID arrays are promising candidates for low profile antennas and low noise amplifier applications. We present the integrated circuit designs and results of DC and RF measurements of the wideband serial arrays based on integration of…

This paper presents a performance comparison of various MIMO radar multiplexing approaches where the increasing number of transmitters adversely affects the dynamic range of the resultant MIMO system. The investigated multiplexing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Aitor Correas-Serrano , Nikita Petrov , Maria Gonzalez-Huici , Alexander Yarovoy

The next generation of experiments for rare-event searches based on skipper Charge Coupled Devices (skipper-CCDs) presents new challenges for the sensor packaging and readout. Scaling the active mass and simultaneously reducing the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 A. M. Botti , C. Chavez , M. Sofo-Haro , C. S. Miller , F. Chierchie , M. Jonas , M. Lisovenko , H. Gutti , D. Czaplewski , A. Lathrop , J. Tiffenberg , G. Fernandez-Moroni , J. Estrada

Integrated arrays of Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors (SNSPDs) have shown capabilities such as Photon Number Resolution, single photon imaging and coincidences detection, and can be effectively used also in other different…

The readout noise for Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) has been the main limitation when using these detectors for measuring small amplitude signals. A readout system for a new scientific, low noise CCD is presented in this paper. The Skipper…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Guillermo Fernandez Moroni , Juan Estrada , Eduardo E. Paolini , Gustavo Cancelo , Stephen E. Holland , H. Thomas Diehl

We present a highly frequency multiplexed readout for large-format superconducting detector arrays intended for use in the next generation of balloon-borne and space-based sub-millimeter and far-infrared missions. We will demonstrate this…

The cryogenic hardware required to build a superconducting qubit based quantum computer demands a variety of microwave components. These elements include microwave couplers, filters, amplifiers, and circulators/isolators. Traditionally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 M. A. Beck , M. Selvanayagam , A. Carniol , S. Cairns , C. P. Mancini

This work builds on the previous introduction [1] of a coupled experimental-computational system devised to fully characterize the thermal behavior of complex 3D submicron electronic devices. The new system replaces the laser-based surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-09-13 Peter E. Raad , Pavel L. Komarov , M. Burzo

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

We present a time-over-threshold readout technique to count the number of activated pixels from an array of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs). This technique maintains the intrinsic timing jitter of the individual…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-18 Johannes Tiedau , Timon Schapeler , Vikas Anant , Helmut Fedder , Christine Silberhorn , Tim J. Bartley

Owing to the maturity of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) microelectronics, qubits realized with spins in silicon quantum dots (QDs) are considered among the most promising technologies for building scalable quantum computers.…

Readout multiplexing is a promising solution to overcome hardware limitations and data bottlenecks in imaging with single-photon detectors. Conventional multiplexed readout processing creates an upper bound on photon counts at a very fine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Shashwath Bharadwaj , Ruangrawee Kitichotkul , Akshay Agarwal , Vivek K Goyal

We present the design and construction of a SQUID-based magnetometer for operation down to temperatures T = 10 mK, while retaining the compatibility with the sample holders typically used in commercial SQUID magnetometers. The system is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Morello , W. G. J. Angenent , G. Frossati , L. J. de Jongh

Superconducting quantum computers have emerged as a leading platform for next-generation computing, offering exceptional scalability and unprecedented computational speeds. However, scaling these systems to millions of qubits for practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Yong-Bok Lee , Connor Devitt , Xu Zhu , Nicholas Yost , Yabei Gu , Sunil A. Bhave