Understanding the saturation power of Josephson Parametric Amplifiers made from SQUIDs arrays
arXiv:1809.08476 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.11.034014
Abstract
We report on the implementation and detailed modelling of a Josephson Parametric Amplifier (JPA) made from an array of eighty Superconducting QUantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs), forming a non-linear quarter-wave resonator. This device was fabricated using a very simple single step fabrication process. It shows a large bandwidth (45 MHz), an operating frequency tunable between 5.9 GHz and 6.8 GHz and a large input saturation power (-117 dBm) when biased to obtain 20 dB of gain. Despite the length of the SQUID array being comparable to the wavelength, we present a model based on an effective non-linear LC series resonator that quantitatively describes these figures of merit without fitting parameters. Our work illustrates the advantage of using array-based JPA since a single-SQUID device showing the same bandwidth and resonant frequency would display a saturation power 15 dB lower.
arXiv comment12 pages, 9 figures, Appendices included
References in corpus (34)
- Charge insensitive qubit design derived from the Cooper pair box
- Amplification and squeezing of quantum noise with a tunable Josephson metamaterial
- Phase preserving amplification near the quantum limit with a Josephson Ring Modulator
- Dynamical Casimir effect in a Josephson metamaterial
- Black-box superconducting circuit quantization
- Dispersive magnetometry with a quantum limited SQUID parametric amplifier
- Implementation of low-loss superinductances for quantum circuits
- 3-Wave Mixing Josephson Dipole Element
- The reconfigurable Josephson circulator/directional amplifier
- Nonreciprocal microwave signal processing with a Field-Programmable Josephson Amplifier
- Quantum limited amplification and entanglement in coupled nonlinear resonators
- Josephson junction-embedded transmission-line resonators: from Kerr medium to in-line transmon
- Strong environmental coupling in a Josephson parametric amplifier
- Broadband parametric amplification with impedance engineering: Beyond the gain-bandwidth product
- Optimizing the nonlinearity and dissipation of a SNAIL Parametric Amplifier for dynamic range
- Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics of Granular Aluminum Resonators
- Widely tunable, non-degenerate three-wave mixing microwave device operating near the quantum limit
- Controlling the dynamic range of a Josephson parametric amplifier
- Performance of cavity-parametric amplifiers, employing Kerr nonlinearites, in the presence of two-photon loss
- Nonlinearities and Parametric Amplification in Superconducting Coplanar Waveguide Resonators
- Observation of Entanglement Between Itinerant Microwave Photons and a Superconducting Qubit
- Novel E-beam lithography technique for in-situ junction fabrication: the controlled undercut
- Josephson Amplifier for Qubit Readout
- Design and characterization of a lumped element single-ended superconducting microwave parametric amplifier with on-chip flux bias line
- High-gain weakly nonlinear flux-modulated Josephson parametric amplifier using a SQUID-array
- Directional amplification with a Josephson circuit
- Kerr coefficients of plasma resonances in Josephson junction chains
- Effect of higher-order nonlinearities on amplification and squeezing in Josephson parametric amplifiers
- Single-shot readout of a superconducting flux qubit with a flux-driven Josephson parametric amplifier
- Kerr non-linearity in a superconducting Josephson metamaterial
- Characterization of a multimode coplanar waveguide parametric amplifier
- Josephson parametric converter saturation and higher order effects
- Higher order non-linear effects in a Josephson parametric amplifier
- Multi-mode superconducting circuits for realizing strongly coupled multi-qubit processor units
Cited by in corpus (30)
- Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics
- A photonic crystal Josephson traveling wave parametric amplifier
- Kerr-free three-wave mixing in superconducting quantum circuits
- Perspective on traveling wave microwave parametric amplifiers
- Fast high fidelity quantum non-demolition qubit readout via a non-perturbative cross-Kerr coupling
- A near-ideal degenerate parametric amplifier
- Josephson Array Mode Parametric Amplifier
- Non-degenerate parametric amplifiers based on dispersion engineered Josephson junction arrays
- A gate-tunable graphene Josephson parametric amplifier
- Gate-tunable kinetic inductance parametric amplifier
- Three-Wave Mixing Quantum-Limited Kinetic Inductance Parametric Amplifier operating at 6 Tesla and near 1 Kelvin
- Broadband lumped-element Josephson parametric amplifier with single-step lithography
- Microwave calibration of qubit drive line components at millikelvin temperatures
- Dynamically enhancing qubit-photon interactions with anti-squeezing
- In-situ amplification of spin echoes within a kinetic inductance parametric amplifier
- Intermodulation Distortion in a Josephson Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifier
- Nonlinearity and Parametric Amplification of Superconducting Nanowire Resonators in Magnetic Field
- High-fidelity qubit readout using interferometric directional Josephson devices
- Fabrication and characterization of aluminum SQUID transmission lines
- Nonlinear characteristics of Ti, Nb, and NbN superconducting resonators for parametric amplifiers
- A Room-Temperature Solid-State Maser Amplifier
- Observing Parity Time Symmetry Breaking in a Josephson Parametric Amplifier
- Kerr nonlinearity and parametric amplification with an Al-InAs superconductor-semiconductor Josephson junction
- Nonlinearity of transparent SNS weak links decreases sharply with length
- Current detection using a Josephson parametric upconverter
- Selective Single and Double-Mode Quantum Limited Amplifier
- Wireless Josephson parametric amplifier above 20 GHz
- Parallel Driving for Fast Quantum Computing Under Speed Limits
- Quantitative calibration of a TWPA applied to an optomechanical platform
- Optimizing the pump coupling for a three-wave mixing Josephson parametric amplifier