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In this work, a parametric up-converter amplifier is introduced as a wideband impedance matching network for receiving electrically small antennas. Chu's limit restricts the minimum Q-factor of unloaded small antennas; however, the…
We propose a unified description of intersubband absorption saturation for quantum wells inserted in a resonator, both in the weak and strong light-matter coupling regimes. We demonstrate how absorption saturation can be engineered. In…
The amplitude of self-oscillating mechanical resonators in cavity optomechanical systems is typically limited by nonlinearities arising from the cavity's finite optical bandwidth. We propose and demonstrate a feedback technique for…
We report high-resolution measurements of thermal fluctuations in microwave and mechanical resonators using a dual-channel readout system. The latter comprises a low-noise amplifier, an I/Q-mixer, and a cross-correlator. We discovered that,…
It has long been recognized that a control current $I_a$ injected into the section of a two-junction superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) is able to produce a change of its critical current $I_c$, so that a current gain…
A Josephson parametric amplifier (JPA) can create squeezed states of microwave light, lowering the noise associated with certain quantum measurements. We experimentally study how the JPA's pump influences the phase-sensitive amplification…
Beamformers often trade off white noise gain against the ability to suppress interferers. With distributed microphone arrays, this trade-off becomes crucial as different arrays capture vastly different magnitude and phase differences for…
Josephson junction parametric amplifiers are playing a crucial role in the readout chain in superconducting quantum information experiments. However, their integration with current 3D cavity implementations poses the problem of…
We present a numerical study on the minimum reflection channel in a disordered waveguide and its modification by coherent amplification of light. The minimum reflection channel is formed by destructive interference of quasi-normal modes at…
A tunable, multi-degree-of-freedom, parametrically excited amplifier is introduced as an apparatus capable of shifting slow, weak signals to higher frequencies, by exploiting the amplifier natural resonances via controlled parametric…
We present results from a study of the nonlinear intermodal coupling between different flexural vibrational modes of a single high-stress, doubly-clamped silicon nitride nanomechanical beam. The measurements were carried out at 100 mK and…
A MEMS Duffing resonator is driven by two adjacent frequency tones into the nonlinear regime. We show that if the two-tone drive is applied at a frequency where a bistable response of the nonlinear oscillator exists, then the system output…
Optical amplification is critical for optical signal transmission. While the emergence of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers has revolutionized optical communications in fiber-based systems, on-chip amplification remains essential for integrated…
The quality factor of a mechanical resonator is an important figure of merit for various sensing applications and for observing quantum behavior. Here, we demonstrate a technique to push the quality factor of a micro-mechanical resonator…
We numerically simulate the distortion of an analog signal carried in a microwave photonics link containing a phase sensitive amplifier (PSA), focusing mainly on amplitude modulation format. The numerical model is validated by comparison…
In this article we present an experimental study of microwave resonators made out of Josephson junctions. The junctions are embedded in a transmission line geometry so that they increase the inductance per length for the line. By comparing…
The electroacoustic resonator is an effcient electro-active device for noise attenuation in enclosed cavities or acoustic waveguides. It is made of a loudspeaker (the actuator) and one or more microphones (the sensors). So far, the desired…
Vibrational resonance focuses on the resonance behavior of a nonlinear system when it is subjected to both a weak low-frequency characteristic signal and a high-frequency auxiliary signal. A traditional Duffing system has a fixed natural…
We have constructed a new type of amplifier whose primary purpose is the readout of superconducting quantum bits. It is based on the transition of an RF-driven Josephson junction between two distinct oscillation states near a dynamical…
We study a conservative system of two nonlinear coupled oscillators. The eigenmodes of the system are thus nonlinearly coupled, and one of them may induce a parametric amplification of the other, called an autoparametric resonance of the…