Development of a homodyne mixing system for performance characterization of terahertz superconducting KIDs
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1.School of Astronomy and Space, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China;2.Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210009, China;3.Department of Physics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China

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O43

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11925304, 12020101002, 12103093); National Key R&D Program of China (2023YFA1608200).

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    The homodyne mixing system is used to characterizing the performance of terahertz superconducting kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs). However, homodyne mixing systems still have issues such as mixer imbalance, measurement system integration, and interference signals. The author designed a new single channel homodyne mixing hardware system and software algorithms to achieve integration of the measurement system, calibration of IQ-mixer imbalance, and performance characterization of KID; Furthermore, noise measurement of KIDs in VNA (vector network analyzer) CW mode is achieved; Finally, the method of hardware circuit design by dual channel homodyne mixing system based on autocorrelation algorithm effectively suppresses interference signals. It is worth noting that these research results are applied to characterize the performance of KIDs, which is important in the design of KIDs arrays.

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ZHANG Jia-Wen, JIN Jun-Da, SHI Sheng-Cai, LI Jing, GENG Wei, LYU Wei-Tao, LI Zhi, ZHI Qiang, PENG Zhao-Hang. Development of a homodyne mixing system for performance characterization of terahertz superconducting KIDs[J]. Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves,2024,43(3):336~345

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  • Received:July 25,2023
  • Revised:April 12,2024
  • Adopted:September 13,2023
  • Online: April 12,2024
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