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We present the design and testing of a 2-20 GHz continuum band analog lag correlator with 16 frequency channels for astronomical interferometry. The correlator has been designed for future use with a prototype single-baseline interferometer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-13 C. M. Holler , M. E. Jones , A. C. Taylor , A. I. Harris , S. A. Maas

We introduce a novel direct calibration algorithm to address phase delay, gain, and offset mismatches in Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) time interleaving systems. These mismatches, common in high-speed data acquisition, degrade system…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 Chi-kwan Chan , Hina Suzuki , David Forbes , Andrew Thomas West , Arash Roshanineshat , Daniel P. Marrone , Amy Lowitz

Context: Fourier transform (or lag) correlators in radio interferometers can serve as an efficient means of synthesising spectral channels. However aliasing corrupts the edge channels so they usually have to be excluded from the data set.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tak Kaneko , Keith Grainge

Correlation radiometers make true differential measurements in power with high accuracy and small systematic errors. This receiver architecture has been used in radio astronomy for measurements of continuum radiation for over 50 years; this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Harris

A wideband analog correlator has been constructed for the Yuan-Tseh Lee Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy. Lag correlators using analog multipliers provide large bandwidth and moderate frequency resolution. Broadband IF…

In order to meet the theoretically achievable imaging performance, calibration of modern radio interferometers is a mandatory challenge, especially at low frequencies. In this perspective, we propose a novel parallel iterative…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-09 Martin Brossard , Mohammed Nabil El Korso , Marius Pesavento , Rémy Boyer , Pascal Larzabal , Stefan J. Wijnholds

This letter presents a dual quadrature phasemeter, an implementation of a phase-locked loop designed to track the phase of homodyne and heterodyne inter-satellite laser links. The dual quadrature phasemeters use dual quadrature optical…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-30 Callum S. Sambridge , Kirk McKenzie

The response of the Advanced LIGO interferometers is known to vary with time [arXiv:1608.05134]. Accurate calibration of the interferometers must therefore track and compensate for temporal variations in calibration model parameters. These…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 Madeline Wade , Aaron D. Viets , Theresa Chmiel , Madeline Stover , Leslie Wade

High sampling speed can be achieved using multiple Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) based on the Time-Interleaving A/D Conversion (TIADC) technique. Various types of methods were proposed to correct the mismatch errors among parallel ADC…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-25 Lei Zhao , Zouyi Jiang , Ruoshi Dong , Zhe Cao , Xingshun Gao , Boyu Cheng , Jiadong Hu , Shubin Liu , Qi An

Gravitational-wave (GW) interferometers are able to detect a change in distance of $\sim$ 1/10,000th the size of a proton. Such sensitivity leads to large appearance rates of non-Gaussian transient noise bursts in the main detector strain,…

Optical clock network requires the establishment of optical frequency transmission link between multiple optical clocks, utilizing narrow linewidth lasers. Despite achieving link noise levels of 10${^{-20}}$, the final accuracy is limited…

In this lecture, we describe a number of advanced gain calibration techniques. In particular, self-calibration is an important tool in interferometric imaging at all wavelengths. It allows the observer to determine and remove residual phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-15 Crystal L. Brogan , Todd R. Hunter , Ed B. Fomalont

A new method of distortion mitigation for multitarget interferometric angular velocity estimation in millimeter-wave radar is presented. In general, when multiple targets are present, the response of a correlation interferometer is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-20 Eric Klinefelter , Jason M. Merlo , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

Future generations of radio interferometers targeting the 21\,cm signal at cosmological distances with $N\gg 1000$ antennas could face a significant computational challenge in building correlators with the traditional architecture, whose…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Deepthi B. Gorthi , Aaron R. Parsons , Joshua S. Dillon

We introduce a decoding framework for correlated errors in quantum LDPC codes under circuit-level noise. The core of our approach is a graph augmentation and rewiring for interference (GARI) method, which modifies the correlated detector…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Arshpreet Singh Maan , Francisco-Garcia Herrero , Alexandru Paler , Valentin Savin

We present a candidate sensor for future spectroscopic applications, such as a Stage-5 Spectroscopic Survey Experiment or the Habitable Worlds Observatory. This type of charge-coupled device (CCD) sensor features multiple in-line amplifiers…

Here in this paper we are presenting a digital system background technique for correcting the time offset error rate and gain mismatches in a time interleaved analog to digital converter system for N channel communication using 8 bit…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-25 Rajiv Kumar , Rakesh Gupta

We have developed an FX-architecture digital spectro-correlator for the Atacama Compact Array (ACA) of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. The correlator is able to simultaneously process four pairs of dual polarization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 T. Kamazaki , S. K. Okumura , Y. Chikada , T. Okuda , Y. Kurono , S. Iguchi , S. Mitsuishi , Y. Murakami , N. Nishimuta , H. Mita , R. Sano

Many important techniques for investigating the properties of extragalactic radio sources, such as spectral-index and rotation-measure mapping, involve the comparison of images at two or more frequencies. In the case of radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. M. Croke , D. C. Gabuzda

Calibrating out per-antenna signal chain effects is an essential step in analyzing radio interferometric data. For drift-scanning arrays, robustly calibrating the data is especially challenging due to the lack of the ability to track a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 Robert Pascua , Jonathan Sievers , Adrian Liu
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