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Characterizing the Dark Count Rate of a Large-Format MKID Array
Noah Swimmer, W. Hawkins Clay, Nicholas Zobrist +1
We present an empirical measurement of the dark count rate seen in a large-format MKID array identical to those currently in use at observatories such as Subaru on Maunakea. This w…
Membrane-less phonon trapping and resolution enhancement in optical microwave kinetic inductance detectors
Nicholas Zobrist, W. Hawkins Clay, Grégoire Coiffard +4
Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) sensitive to light in the ultraviolet to near-infrared wavelengths are superconducting micro-resonators that are capable of measuring…
The MKID Science Data Pipeline
Sarah Steiger, John I. Bailey, Nicholas Zobrist +4
We present The MKID Pipeline, a general use science data pipeline for the reduction and analysis of ultraviolet, optical and infrared (UVOIR) Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector…
Improving the energy resolution of photon counting Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors using principal component analysis
Jacob M. Miller, Nicholas Zobrist, Gerhard Ulbricht +1
We develop a photon energy measurement scheme for single photon counting Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) that uses principal component analysis (PCA) to measure the…
Improving the dynamic range of single photon counting kinetic inductance detectors
Nicholas Zobrist, Nikita Klimovich, Byeong Ho Eom +8
We develop a simple coordinate transformation which can be employed to compensate for the nonlinearity introduced by a Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector's (MKID) homodyne reado…
Second Generation Readout For Large Format Photon Counting Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors
Neelay Fruitwala, Paschal Strader, Gustavo Cancelo +10
We present the development of a second generation digital readout system for photon counting microwave kinetic inductance detector (MKID) arrays operating in the optical and near-I…
The MKID Exoplanet Camera for Subaru SCExAO
Alexander B. Walter, Neelay Fruitwala, Sarah Steiger +21
We present the MKID Exoplanet Camera (MEC), a z through J band (800 - 1400 nm) integral field spectrograph located behind The Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO)…
Design and Performance of Hafnium Optical and Near-IR Kinetic Inductance Detectors
Nicholas Zobrist, Grégoire Coiffard, Bruce Bumble +9
We report on the design and performance of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) sensitive to single photons in the optical to near-infrared range using hafnium as the sen…
Optical and Near-IR Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) in the 2020s
Benjamin A. Mazin, Jeb Bailey, Jo Bartlett +22
Optical and near-IR Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors, or MKIDs, are superconducting photon counting detectors capable of measuring the energy and arrival time of individual O…
Wide-band Parametric Amplifier Readout and Resolution of Optical Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors
Nicholas Zobrist, Byeong Ho Eom, Peter Day +9
The energy resolution of a single photon counting Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) can be degraded by noise coming from the primary low temperature amplifier in the det…
DARKNESS: A Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector Integral Field Spectrograph for High-Contrast Astronomy
Seth R. Meeker, Benjamin A. Mazin, Alex B. Walter +21
We present DARKNESS (the DARK-speckle Near-infrared Energy-resolving Superconducting Spectrophotometer), the first of several planned integral field spectrographs to use optical/ne…
Large-format platinum silicide microwave kinetic inductance detectors for optical to near-IR astronomy
P. Szypryt, S. R. Meeker, G. Coiffard +10
We have fabricated and characterized 10,000 and 20,440 pixel Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) arrays for the Dark-speckle Near-IR Energy-resolved Superconducting Spectr…