Abstract
We are going to describe the design and the electrical performance of the horn-coupled lumped element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) for the OLIMPO experiment. OLIMPO is a balloon-borne mission, devoted to the study of the largest structures in the Universe, by detecting the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) photons crossing clusters of galaxies. The multi-band focal planes (centered at 150, 200, 350 and 480 GHz), large aperture telescope (2.6 m), photometric and spectrometer configuration (OLIMPO is equipped with a plug-in differential Fourier transform spectrometer) make OLIMPO able to characaterise all the components of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with unprecedented precision. The design of the LEKIDs has been optimised to cope with a wide range of optical loadings (corresponding to both photometric and spectrometric configurations). The electrical characterisation of the LEKID arrays was performed in the OLIMPO cryostat, at a temperature around 300 mK and under a constant optical load lower than 500 fW. The readout electronics is a customised ROACH-2 coupled to a MUSIC DAC/ADC board. The averaged responsivities for the arrays, measured from the phase readout, are 1.18x1011 rad/W for the 150 GHz array, 4.10x1010 rad/W for the 200 GHz array, 1.09x1012 rad/W for the 350 GHz array, and 4.41x1011 rad/W for the 480 GHz array. Therefore, measuring the spectral noise density for each pixels of the arrays, whose average values are 2.5x10-5 rad/Hz(1/2) for the 150 GHz array, 3.6x10-5 rad/Hz(1/2) for the 200 GHz array, 5.1x10-5 rad/Hz(1/2) for the 350 GHz array, and 1.9x10-5 rad/Hz(1/2) for the 480 GHz array, we obtained the values of the averaged electrical noise equivalent power (NEP) over all the arrays: 2x10-16 W/Hz(1/2), 9x10-16 W/Hz(1/2), 5x10-17 W/Hz(1/2), and 4x10-17 W/Hz(1/2) respectively for the four OLIMPO arrays.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | 2017 16th International Superconductive Electronics Conference, ISEC 2017 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| Pages | 1-3 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Volume | 2018-January |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781509058686 |
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| State | Published - Mar 9 2018 |
| Event | 16th International Superconductive Electronics Conference, ISEC 2017 - Napoli, Italy Duration: Jun 12 2017 → Jun 16 2017 |
Other
| Other | 16th International Superconductive Electronics Conference, ISEC 2017 |
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| Country | Italy |
| City | Napoli |
| Period | 6/12/17 → 6/16/17 |
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Keywords
- CMB radiation
- kinetic inductance detectors
- OLIMPO experiment
- SZ effect
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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Design and Electrical Performance of the Kinetic Inductance Detectors of the OLIMPO Experiment. / Paiella, A.; Battistelli, E. S.; Columbro, F.; Coppolecchia, A.; D'Alessandro, G.; De Bernardis, P.; Lamagna, L.; Masi, S.; Piacentini, F.; Castellano, M. G.; Colantoni, I.; Gordon, S.; Mauskopf, Philip.
2017 16th International Superconductive Electronics Conference, ISEC 2017. Vol. 2018-January Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018. p. 1-3.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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AU - Paiella, A.
AU - Battistelli, E. S.
AU - Columbro, F.
AU - Coppolecchia, A.
AU - D'Alessandro, G.
AU - De Bernardis, P.
AU - Lamagna, L.
AU - Masi, S.
AU - Piacentini, F.
AU - Castellano, M. G.
AU - Colantoni, I.
AU - Gordon, S.
AU - Mauskopf, Philip
PY - 2018/3/9
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N2 - We are going to describe the design and the electrical performance of the horn-coupled lumped element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) for the OLIMPO experiment. OLIMPO is a balloon-borne mission, devoted to the study of the largest structures in the Universe, by detecting the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) photons crossing clusters of galaxies. The multi-band focal planes (centered at 150, 200, 350 and 480 GHz), large aperture telescope (2.6 m), photometric and spectrometer configuration (OLIMPO is equipped with a plug-in differential Fourier transform spectrometer) make OLIMPO able to characaterise all the components of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with unprecedented precision. The design of the LEKIDs has been optimised to cope with a wide range of optical loadings (corresponding to both photometric and spectrometric configurations). The electrical characterisation of the LEKID arrays was performed in the OLIMPO cryostat, at a temperature around 300 mK and under a constant optical load lower than 500 fW. The readout electronics is a customised ROACH-2 coupled to a MUSIC DAC/ADC board. The averaged responsivities for the arrays, measured from the phase readout, are 1.18x1011 rad/W for the 150 GHz array, 4.10x1010 rad/W for the 200 GHz array, 1.09x1012 rad/W for the 350 GHz array, and 4.41x1011 rad/W for the 480 GHz array. Therefore, measuring the spectral noise density for each pixels of the arrays, whose average values are 2.5x10-5 rad/Hz(1/2) for the 150 GHz array, 3.6x10-5 rad/Hz(1/2) for the 200 GHz array, 5.1x10-5 rad/Hz(1/2) for the 350 GHz array, and 1.9x10-5 rad/Hz(1/2) for the 480 GHz array, we obtained the values of the averaged electrical noise equivalent power (NEP) over all the arrays: 2x10-16 W/Hz(1/2), 9x10-16 W/Hz(1/2), 5x10-17 W/Hz(1/2), and 4x10-17 W/Hz(1/2) respectively for the four OLIMPO arrays.
AB - We are going to describe the design and the electrical performance of the horn-coupled lumped element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) for the OLIMPO experiment. OLIMPO is a balloon-borne mission, devoted to the study of the largest structures in the Universe, by detecting the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) photons crossing clusters of galaxies. The multi-band focal planes (centered at 150, 200, 350 and 480 GHz), large aperture telescope (2.6 m), photometric and spectrometer configuration (OLIMPO is equipped with a plug-in differential Fourier transform spectrometer) make OLIMPO able to characaterise all the components of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with unprecedented precision. The design of the LEKIDs has been optimised to cope with a wide range of optical loadings (corresponding to both photometric and spectrometric configurations). The electrical characterisation of the LEKID arrays was performed in the OLIMPO cryostat, at a temperature around 300 mK and under a constant optical load lower than 500 fW. The readout electronics is a customised ROACH-2 coupled to a MUSIC DAC/ADC board. The averaged responsivities for the arrays, measured from the phase readout, are 1.18x1011 rad/W for the 150 GHz array, 4.10x1010 rad/W for the 200 GHz array, 1.09x1012 rad/W for the 350 GHz array, and 4.41x1011 rad/W for the 480 GHz array. Therefore, measuring the spectral noise density for each pixels of the arrays, whose average values are 2.5x10-5 rad/Hz(1/2) for the 150 GHz array, 3.6x10-5 rad/Hz(1/2) for the 200 GHz array, 5.1x10-5 rad/Hz(1/2) for the 350 GHz array, and 1.9x10-5 rad/Hz(1/2) for the 480 GHz array, we obtained the values of the averaged electrical noise equivalent power (NEP) over all the arrays: 2x10-16 W/Hz(1/2), 9x10-16 W/Hz(1/2), 5x10-17 W/Hz(1/2), and 4x10-17 W/Hz(1/2) respectively for the four OLIMPO arrays.
KW - CMB radiation
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