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The separation and optimization of noise components is critical to microwave-kinetic inductance detector (MKID) development. We analyze the effect several changes lumped-element inductor interdigitated capacitor geometry on performance a series MKIDs intended for millimeter-wavelength experiments. extract contributions from two-level system in dielectric layer, generation-recombination intrinsi...

Future actively cooled space-borne observatories for the far-infrared, loosely defined as a 1--10 THz band, can potentially reach sensitivity limited only by background radiation from Universe. This will result in an increase observing speed of many orders magnitude. A spectroscopic instrument on such observatory requires large arrays detectors with expressed noise equivalent power NEP = 3 $\ti...

Dans cet article, nous présentons les MKIDs, pour « Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors », une nouvelle technologie de détecteur supraconducteur ultrasensible capable détecter le photon et permettant couvrir un large spectre électromagnétique allant des ondes millimétriques-submillimétriques aux rayons gamma, en passant par l’optique.

The nonlinearity exhibited by the kinetic inductance of a superconducting stripline couples stripline resonator modes together in a manner suitable for quantum nondemolition measurement of the number of photons in a given resonator mode. Quantum nondemolition measurement is accomplished by coherently driving another resonator mode, referred to as the detector mode, and measuring its response. W...