Superconducting microwave resonant circuits for the detection of photons from microwaves through gamma rays

Author

Irwin, K.D. ; Gao, J. ; Hilton, G.C. ; Mates, J.A.B. ; Vale, L.R.

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Boulder, CO, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

5-10 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Thin-film superconducting microwave resonators play an important role in large superconducting photon cameras for applications ranging from cosmology to nuclear non-proliferation. The high quality factor and low loss of these devices make it possible to couple many resonators to a single feedline, enabling frequency-division multiplexing of large arrays of detectors. We review the use of superconducting microwave resonators for both microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) and superconducting transition-edge sensors (TES).

Keywords

frequency division multiplexing; superconducting microwave devices; superconducting resonators; thin film devices; cosmology; frequency division multiplexing; gamma rays; microwave kinetic inductance detector; nuclear nonproliferation; photons; quality factor; superconducting microwave resonant circuit; superconducting photon camera; superconducting transition edge sensors; thin film superconducting microwave resonator; Microwave amplifiers; Microwave circuits; Microwave measurements; Photonics; Resonant frequency; SQUIDs; Superconducting microwave devices; Detectors; superconducting microwave devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT), 2011 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-754-2

Electronic_ISBN

0149-645X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2011.5972694

Filename

5972694