Improvements in the AIST Cryogenic Radiometer With Superconducting Thermometer

We are developing a cryogenic radiometer (CR) with a superconducting thermometer for the optical laser power calibration. This device consists of a niobium transition edge sensor and an electrical substitution heater on a silicon substrate. The device temperature is locked at the niobium transition temperature with a superconducting quantum interference device amplifier and a proportional-integral-derivative controller. The device successfully determines the absolute optical power in the range from 20 nW to 600 muW, with a fast response of 3 s. The equivalence measurement shows that the response difference between the substitution power and the simulated optical power is less than 0.0034%. These properties are very attractive for next generation of a high-accuracy CR