Millimeter-wave polarimeters using kinetic inductance detectors for TolTEC and beyond

JE Austermann, JA Beall, SA Bryan, B Dober… - Journal of Low …, 2018 - Springer
Microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) provide a compelling path forward to the
large-format polarimeter, imaging, and spectrometer arrays needed for next-generation …

CCAT-prime: RFSoC based readout for frequency multiplexed kinetic inductance detectors

AK Sinclair, RC Stephenson… - … , and Far-Infrared …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Prime-Cam instrument on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) is expected
to be the largest deployment of millimeter and submillimeter sensitive kinetic inductance …

Prime-Cam: a first-light instrument for the CCAT-prime telescope

EM Vavagiakis, Z Ahmed, A Ali, K Basu… - … , and Far-Infrared …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
CCAT-prime will be a 6-meter aperture telescope operating from sub-mm to mm
wavelengths, located at 5600 meters elevation on Cerro Chajnantor in the Atacama Desert …

Superconducting micro-resonator arrays with ideal frequency spacing

X Liu, W Guo, Y Wang, M Dai, LF Wei, B Dober… - Applied Physics …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We present a wafer trimming technique for producing superconducting micro-resonator
arrays with highly uniform frequency spacing. With the light-emitting diode mapper …

The CCAT-prime submillimeter observatory

M Aravena, J Austermann, K Basu, N Battaglia… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
The Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope-prime (CCAT-prime) is a new 6-m, off-axis, low-
emissivity, large field-of-view submillimeter telescope scheduled for first light in the last …

Superconducting materials for microwave kinetic inductance detectors

BA Mazin - Handbook of Superconductivity, 2022 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Microwave kinetic inductance detectors, or MKIDs (Day, Leduc, Mazin, et al. 2003;
Zmuidzinas, 2012), are superconducting resonators suitable for a wide variety of photon and …

Ultrastable millimeter-wave kinetic inductance detectors

MR Vissers, JE Austermann, M Malnou… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) whose sensitivity is limited
by photon noise at signal frequencies as low as 50 mHz. The subhertz part of the detection …

Preflight characterization of the BLAST-TNG receiver and detector arrays

NP Lourie, PAR Ade, FE Angile… - … , and Far-Infrared …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG)
is a submillimeter mapping experiment planned for a 28 day long-duration balloon (LDB) …

CCAT-prime: the 850 GHz camera for prime-cam on FYST

SC Chapman, AI Huber, AK Sinclair… - … , and Far-Infrared …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) at the Cerro-Chajnantor Atacama
Telescope prime (CCATprime) Facility will host Prime-Cam as a powerful, first generation …

Design and performance of dual-polarization lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors for millimeter-wave polarimetry

H McCarrick, G Jones, BR Johnson, MH Abitbol… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Aims. Lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) are an attractive technology
for millimeter-wave observations that require large arrays of extremely low-noise detectors …