A prototype of digital frequency multiplexing electronics allowing the real time monitoring of microwave kinetic inductance detector (MKIDs) arrays for mm-wave astronomy has been developed. It requires only 2 coaxial cables for instrumenting a large array. For that, an excitation comb of frequencies is generated and fed through the detector. The direct frequency synthesis and the data acquisition relies heavily on a large FPGA using parallelized and pipelined processing. The prototype can instrument 128 resonators (pixels) over a bandwidth of 125 MHz. This paper describes the technical solution chosen, the algorithm used and the results obtained.
Electronics and data acquisition demonstrator for a kinetic inductance camera / O., Bourrion; A., Bideaud; A., Benoit; Cruciani, Angelo; J. F., Macias Perez; A., Monfardini; M., Roesch; L., Swenson; C., Vescovi. - In: JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION. - ISSN 1748-0221. - 6:06(2011), pp. P06012-P06012. [10.1088/1748-0221/6/06/p06012]
Electronics and data acquisition demonstrator for a kinetic inductance camera
CRUCIANI, ANGELO;
2011
Abstract
A prototype of digital frequency multiplexing electronics allowing the real time monitoring of microwave kinetic inductance detector (MKIDs) arrays for mm-wave astronomy has been developed. It requires only 2 coaxial cables for instrumenting a large array. For that, an excitation comb of frequencies is generated and fed through the detector. The direct frequency synthesis and the data acquisition relies heavily on a large FPGA using parallelized and pipelined processing. The prototype can instrument 128 resonators (pixels) over a bandwidth of 125 MHz. This paper describes the technical solution chosen, the algorithm used and the results obtained.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.