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15 July 2010 An open-source readout for MKIDs
Ran Duan, Sean McHugh, Bruno Serfass, Benjamin A. Mazin, A. Merrill, Sunil R. Golwala, Thomas P. Downes, Nicole G. Czakon, Peter K. Day, Jiansong Gao, Jason Glenn, Matthew I. Hollister, Henry G. Leduc, Philip R. Maloney, Omid Noroozian, Hien T. Nguyen, Jack Sayers, James A. Schlaerth, Seth Siegel, John E. Vaillancourt, Anastasios Vayonakis, Philip R. Wilson, Jonas Zmuidzinas
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Abstract
This paper will present the design, implementation, performance analysis of an open source readout system for arrays of microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKID) for mm/submm astronomy. The readout system will perform frequency domain multiplexed real-time complex microwave transmission measurements in order to monitor the instantaneous resonance frequency and dissipation of superconducting microresonators. Each readout unit will be able to cover up to 550 MHz bandwidth and readout 256 complex frequency channels simultaneously. The digital electronics include the customized DAC, ADC, IF system and the FPGA based signal processing hardware developed by CASPER group.1-7 The entire system is open sourced, and can be customized to meet challenging requirement in many applications: e.g. MKID, MSQUID etc.
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Ran Duan, Sean McHugh, Bruno Serfass, Benjamin A. Mazin, A. Merrill, Sunil R. Golwala, Thomas P. Downes, Nicole G. Czakon, Peter K. Day, Jiansong Gao, Jason Glenn, Matthew I. Hollister, Henry G. Leduc, Philip R. Maloney, Omid Noroozian, Hien T. Nguyen, Jack Sayers, James A. Schlaerth, Seth Siegel, John E. Vaillancourt, Anastasios Vayonakis, Philip R. Wilson, and Jonas Zmuidzinas "An open-source readout for MKIDs", Proc. SPIE 7741, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy V, 77411V (15 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856832
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KEYWORDS
Field programmable gate arrays

Resonators

Interference (communication)

Field effect transistors

Electronics

Signal processing

Amplifiers

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