Design and performance of SuperSpec: An on-chip, KID-based, mm-wavelength spectrometer

E. Shirokoff; P. S. Barry; C. M. Bradford; G. Chattopadhyay; P. Day; S. Doyle; S. Hailey-Dunsheath; M. I. Hollister; A. Kovács; H. G. Leduc; C. M. McKenney; Philip Mauskopf; H. T. Nguyen; R. O'Brient; S. Padin; T. J. Reck; L. J. Swenson; C. E. Tucker; J. Zmuidzinas

doi:10.1007/s10909-014-1122-8

Design and performance of SuperSpec: An on-chip, KID-based, mm-wavelength spectrometer

E. Shirokoff, P. S. Barry, C. M. Bradford, G. Chattopadhyay, P. Day, S. Doyle, S. Hailey-Dunsheath, M. I. Hollister, A. Kovács, H. G. Leduc, C. M. McKenney, Philip Mauskopf, H. T. Nguyen, R. O'Brient, S. Padin, T. J. Reck, L. J. Swenson, C. E. Tucker, J. Zmuidzinas

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SuperSpec is an ultra-compact spectrometer-on-a-chip for mm and submm wavelength astronomy. Its very small size, wide spectral bandwidth, and highly multiplexed detector readout will enable construction of powerful multi-object spectrometers for observations of galaxies at high redshift. SuperSpec is a filter bank with planar, lithographed, superconducting transmission line resonator filters and lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors made from Titanium Nitride. We have built an 81 detector prototype that operates in the 195-310 GHz band. The prototype has a wide-band metal feed horn with a transition to microstrip that feeds the filter bank. The prototype has demonstrated optical filter bank channels with a range of resolving powers from 300 to 700, measured fractional frequency noise of 10^-17 Hz ^-1 at 1 Hz.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	657-662
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Volume	176
Issue number	5-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-014-1122-8
State	Published - Sep 2014

Keywords

Kinetic inductance detectors
Millimeter-wavelength
Resonators
Spectroscopy

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
General Materials Science
Condensed Matter Physics

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Shirokoff, E., Barry, P. S., Bradford, C. M., Chattopadhyay, G., Day, P., Doyle, S., Hailey-Dunsheath, S., Hollister, M. I., Kovács, A., Leduc, H. G., McKenney, C. M., Mauskopf, P., Nguyen, H. T., O'Brient, R., Padin, S., Reck, T. J., Swenson, L. J., Tucker, C. E., & Zmuidzinas, J. (2014). Design and performance of SuperSpec: An on-chip, KID-based, mm-wavelength spectrometer. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 176(5-6), 657-662. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-014-1122-8

Shirokoff, E, Barry, PS, Bradford, CM, Chattopadhyay, G, Day, P, Doyle, S, Hailey-Dunsheath, S, Hollister, MI, Kovács, A, Leduc, HG, McKenney, CM, Mauskopf, P, Nguyen, HT, O'Brient, R, Padin, S, Reck, TJ, Swenson, LJ, Tucker, CE & Zmuidzinas, J 2014, 'Design and performance of SuperSpec: An on-chip, KID-based, mm-wavelength spectrometer', Journal of Low Temperature Physics, vol. 176, no. 5-6, pp. 657-662. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-014-1122-8

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