Advances in bolometer technology for fundamental physics

S Pirro, P Mauskopf - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
In the last decade, cryogenic bolometers have provided increasingly improved resolution
and sensitivity in particle and radiation detectors. Thermal particle detectors have proven …

Transition edge sensors and kinetic inductance detectors in astronomical instruments

PD Mauskopf - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Superconducting detector arrays have become the standard technology for the current
generation of millimeter-wave and submm-wave astronomical instruments on individual …

CMB-S4 technology book

MH Abitbol, Z Ahmed, D Barron, RB Thakur… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
CMB-S4 is a proposed experiment to map the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave
Background (CMB) to nearly the cosmic variance limit for angular scales that are accessible …

[HTML][HTML] A kilo-pixel imaging system for future space based far-infrared observatories using microwave kinetic inductance detectors

JJA Baselmans, J Bueno, SJC Yates… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Aims. Future astrophysics and cosmic microwave background space missions operating in
the far-infrared to millimetre part of the spectrum will require very large arrays of ultra …

Ultra-sensitive THz microwave kinetic inductance detectors for future space telescopes

JJA Baselmans, F Facchin, AP Laguna… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Aims. Future actively cooled space-borne observatories for the far-infrared, loosely defined
as a 1–10 THz band, can potentially reach a sensitivity limited only by background radiation …

Interplay between kinetic inductance, nonlinearity, and quasiparticle dynamics in granular aluminum microwave kinetic inductance detectors

F Valenti, F Henriques, G Catelani, N Maleeva… - Physical review applied, 2019 - APS
Microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) are thin-film, cryogenic, superconducting
resonators. Incident Cooper pair-breaking radiation increases their kinetic inductance …

CCAT-prime: RFSoC based readout for frequency multiplexed kinetic inductance detectors

AK Sinclair, RC Stephenson… - … , and Far-Infrared …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Prime-Cam instrument on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) is expected
to be the largest deployment of millimeter and submillimeter sensitive kinetic inductance …

Wideband on-chip terahertz spectrometer based on a superconducting filterbank

A Endo, K Karatsu, AP Laguna… - Journal of …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Terahertz spectrometers with a wide instantaneous frequency coverage for passive remote
sensing are enormously attractive for many terahertz applications, such as astronomy …

THz imaging using uncooled wideband direct detection focal plane arrays

S van Berkel, O Yurduseven, A Freni… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In millimeter and submillimeter-wave radiometric imaging systems, a persistent goal is the
increase in the speed of acquisition of the image while maintaining a high sensitivity …

Antenna coupled MKID performance verification at 850 GHz for large format astrophysics arrays

L Ferrari, O Yurduseven, N Llombart… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Next generation sub-mm imaging instruments require kilo-pixel focal plane arrays filled with
background limited detectors. Microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) are a state-of …