Influence of bias voltage noise on the Inelastic Cooper-Pair Tunneling Amplifier (ICTA)
arXiv:2409.18349 · doi:10.1063/5.0240842
Abstract
We experimentally show that the Inelastic Cooper-Pair Tunneling Amplifier (ICTA), implementing a DC-powered parametric amplification scheme, can achieve gain and noise performance similar to that of Josephson parametric amplifiers. Using experimental data and simulations, we show that the ICTA has near-quantum-limited noise as long as the integral voltage bias noise divided by the superconducting flux quantum is below the amplification bandwidth. We observe a gain of 20 dB with noise below 1.7 times the quantum limit when the full width at half maximum of the integral voltage noise, expressed as frequency, is 5.6 MHz.
arXiv comment17 pages, 6 figures
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