Development and performance of universal readout harness for the simons observatory

Jenna E. Moore; Tanay Bhandarkar; Brooke Digia; Cody Duell; Nicholas Galitzki; Justin Mathewson; John Orlowski-Scherer; Max Silva-Feaver; Yuhan Wang; Caleb Wheeler; Zhilei Xu; Philip Mauskopf

doi:10.1117/12.2630527

Development and performance of universal readout harness for the simons observatory

Jenna E. Moore, Tanay Bhandarkar, Brooke Digia, Cody Duell, Nicholas Galitzki, Justin Mathewson, John Orlowski-Scherer, Max Silva-Feaver, Yuhan Wang, Caleb Wheeler, Zhilei Xu, Philip Mauskopf

Earth and Space Exploration, School of (SESE)

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Abstract

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment that consists of three 0.5 m small-aperture telescopes and one 6 m large-aperture telescope, sited at an elevation of 5200 m in the Atacama Desert in Chile. SO will utilize more than 60,000 transition edge sensors (TES) to observe CMB temperature and polarization in six frequency bands from 27-280 GHz. Common to both the small and large aperture telescope receivers (LATR) is the 300K-4K Universal Readout Harness (URH), which supports up to 600 DC bias lines and 24 radio frequency (RF) channels consisting of input and output coaxial cables, input attenuators and custom high dynamic range 40K low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) on the output readout coaxial cable. Each RF channel can read out up to 1000 TES detectors. In this paper, we will present the design and characterization of the six URHs constructed for the initial phase of SO deployment.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI
Editors	Jonas Zmuidzinas, Jian-Rong Gao
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510653610
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630527
State	Published - 2022
Event	Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI 2022 - Montreal, Canada Duration: Jul 17 2022 → Jul 22 2022

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	12190
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

Conference

Conference	Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI 2022
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	7/17/22 → 7/22/22

Keywords

Astronomical instrumentation
Cable assemblies
Low noise amplifiers
Microwave multiplexing
Readout
cosmic microwave background

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Moore, J. E., Bhandarkar, T., Digia, B., Duell, C., Galitzki, N., Mathewson, J., Orlowski-Scherer, J., Silva-Feaver, M., Wang, Y., Wheeler, C., Xu, Z., & Mauskopf, P. (2022). Development and performance of universal readout harness for the simons observatory. In J. Zmuidzinas, & J.-R. Gao (Eds.), Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI Article 1219025 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 12190). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630527

Development and performance of universal readout harness for the simons observatory. / Moore, Jenna E.; Bhandarkar, Tanay; Digia, Brooke et al.
Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI. ed. / Jonas Zmuidzinas; Jian-Rong Gao. SPIE, 2022. 1219025 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 12190).

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Moore, JE, Bhandarkar, T, Digia, B, Duell, C, Galitzki, N, Mathewson, J, Orlowski-Scherer, J, Silva-Feaver, M, Wang, Y, Wheeler, C, Xu, Z & Mauskopf, P 2022, Development and performance of universal readout harness for the simons observatory. in J Zmuidzinas & J-R Gao (eds), Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI., 1219025, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 12190, SPIE, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI 2022, Montreal, Canada, 7/17/22. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630527

Moore JE, Bhandarkar T, Digia B, Duell C, Galitzki N, Mathewson J et al. Development and performance of universal readout harness for the simons observatory. In Zmuidzinas J, Gao JR, editors, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI. SPIE. 2022. 1219025. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering). doi: 10.1117/12.2630527

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