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Publications (8)

astro-ph.IM2026

KID Detector Readout Electronics Development for Habitable Worlds Observatory

Sean Bryan, Hugh Barnaby, Oketa Basha +15

We present the status and goals of the readout electronics system we are developing to support the detector arrays in the coronagraph instrument on the NASA Habitable Worlds Observ…

astro-ph.IM2025

CCAT: Design, Implementation, and Testing of a System to Read Out over 10,000 280 GHz KIDs using RFSoC Electronics

Darshan A. Patel, Yuhan Wang, Cody J. Duell +28

Over the past decade, kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) have emerged as a viable superconducting technology for astrophysics at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. KIDs spa…

physics.ins-det2026

An Open Source RFSoC-based Readout Electronics System for Arrays of Kinetic Inductance Detectors and Superconducting Resonators

Cody Roberson, Nia McNichols, Jack Sayers +12

We present a novel readout electronics system for large arrays of superconducting electromagnetic resonators, such as kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs), based on a Radio Frequenc…

astro-ph.IM2025

A Millimeter-Wave Photometric Camera for Long-Range Imaging Through Optical Obscurants Using Kinetic Inductance Detectors

Jack Sayers, Daniel Cunnane, Sage Crystian +16

Passive imaging through optical obscurants is a promising application for mm-wave sensing. We have thus developed the Superconducting Kinetic Inductance Passive Radiometer (SKIPR),…

astro-ph.IM2026

Spaceflight KID Readout Electronics for PRIMA

Thomas Essinger-Hileman, C. Matt Bradford, Patrick Brown +23

We present the design and testing of a prototype multiplexing kinetic inductance detector (KID) readout electronics for the PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) spac…

astro-ph.IM2025

CCAT: Mod-Cam Cryogenic Performance and its Impact on 280 GHz KID Array Noise

Lawrence T. Lin, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Jason E. Austermann +27

The CCAT Observatory's Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) is designed to observe submillimeter astronomical signals with high precision, using receivers fielding state-of-th…