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Limitations to the energy resolution of single-photon sensitive Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors
Mario De Lucia, Gerhard Ulbricht, Eoin Baldwin +4
This paper describes the energy resolution of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs), and models some limiting factors to it. Energy resolution is a measure of the smallest…
Frequency Domain Multiplexing for MKIDs: Comparing the Xilinx ZCU111 RFSoC with their new 2x2 RFSoC board
Eoin Baldwin, Mario De Lucia, Colm Bracken +4
The Xilinx ZCU111 Radio Frequency System on Chip (RFSoC) is a promising solution for reading out large arrays of microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs). The board boasts ei…
High-uniformity TiN/Ti/TiN multilayers for the development of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector
Mario De Lucia, E. Baldwin, G. Ulbricht +4
Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) are a class of superconducting cryogenic detectors that simultaneously exhibit energy resolution, time resolution and spatial resolut…
Repurposing ROACH-1 boards for prototyping of readout systems for optical-NIR MKIDs
Oisín Creaner, Colm Bracken, Jack Piercy +4
Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) are cryogenic photon detectors and are attractive because they permit simultaneous time, energy and spatial resolution of faint astro…
Modeling Results and Baseline Design for an RF-SoC-Based Readout System for Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors
Colm Bracken, Eoin Baldwin, Gerhard Ulbricht +2
Building upon existing signal processing techniques and open-source software, this paper presents a baseline design for an RF System-on-Chip Frequency Division Multiplexed readout…
Multiplexable frequency retuning of MKID arrays using their non-linear kinetic inductance
Mario De Lucia, Eoin Baldwin, Gerhard Ulbricht +3
Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) arrays are currently being developed and deployed for astronomical applications in the visible and near infrared and for sub-millimetre…
Applications for Microwave Kinetic Induction Detectors in Advanced Instrumentation
Gerhard Ulbricht, Mario De Lucia, Eoin Baldwin
In recent years Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) have emerged as one of the most promising novel low temperature detector technologies. Their unrivaled scalability ma…