Photon noise from chaotic and coherent millimeter-wave sources measured with horn-coupled, aluminum lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors

D. Flanigan; H. McCarrick; G. Jones; B. R. Johnson; M. H. Abitbol; P. Ade; D. Araujo; K. Bradford; R. Cantor; G. Che; P. Day; S. Doyle; C. B. Kjellstrand; H. Leduc; M. Limon; V. Luu; Philip Mauskopf; A. Miller; T. Mroczkowski; C. Tucker; J. Zmuidzinas

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Photon noise from chaotic and coherent millimeter-wave sources measured with horn-coupled, aluminum lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors

D. Flanigan, H. McCarrick, G. Jones, B. R. Johnson, M. H. Abitbol, P. Ade, D. Araujo, K. Bradford, R. Cantor, G. Che, P. Day, S. Doyle, C. B. Kjellstrand, H. Leduc, M. Limon, V. Luu, Philip Mauskopf, A. Miller, T. Mroczkowski, C. TuckerJ. Zmuidzinas

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We report photon-noise limited performance of horn-coupled, aluminum lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors at millimeter wavelengths. The detectors are illuminated by a millimeter-wave source that uses an active multiplier chain to produce radiation between 140 and 160 GHz. We feed the multiplier with either amplified broadband noise or a continuous-wave tone from a microwave signal generator. We demonstrate that the detector response over a 40 dB range of source power is well-described by a simple model that considers the number of quasiparticles. The detector noise-equivalent power (NEP) is dominated by photon noise when the absorbed power is greater than approximately 1 pW, which corresponds to NEP≈2×10-17 W Hz-1/2, referenced to absorbed power. At higher source power levels, we observe the relationships between noise and power expected from the photon statistics of the source signal: NEPP for broadband (chaotic) illumination and NEPP1/2 for continuous-wave (coherent) illumination.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	083504
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	108
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4942804
State	Published - Feb 22 2016

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Flanigan, D., McCarrick, H., Jones, G., Johnson, B. R., Abitbol, M. H., Ade, P., Araujo, D., Bradford, K., Cantor, R., Che, G., Day, P., Doyle, S., Kjellstrand, C. B., Leduc, H., Limon, M., Luu, V., Mauskopf, P., Miller, A., Mroczkowski, T., ... Zmuidzinas, J. (2016). Photon noise from chaotic and coherent millimeter-wave sources measured with horn-coupled, aluminum lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors. Applied Physics Letters, 108(8), Article 083504. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4942804

Flanigan, D, McCarrick, H, Jones, G, Johnson, BR, Abitbol, MH, Ade, P, Araujo, D, Bradford, K, Cantor, R, Che, G, Day, P, Doyle, S, Kjellstrand, CB, Leduc, H, Limon, M, Luu, V, Mauskopf, P, Miller, A, Mroczkowski, T, Tucker, C & Zmuidzinas, J 2016, 'Photon noise from chaotic and coherent millimeter-wave sources measured with horn-coupled, aluminum lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors', Applied Physics Letters, vol. 108, no. 8, 083504. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4942804

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