Electrical and optical measurements on the first SCUBA-2 prototype 1280pixel submillimeter superconducting bolometer array

Woodcraft, Adam, Ade, Peter A. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, Bintley, Dan, House, Julian Steven, Hunt, Cynthia, Sudiwala, Rashmikant V. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3240-5304, Doriese, William B., Duncan, William D., Hilton, Gene C., Irwin, Kent D., Reintsema, Carl D., Ullom, Joel N., Audley, Michael D., Ellis, Maureen A., Holland, Wayne S., MacIntosh, Mike, Dunare, Camelia C., Parkes, William, Walton, Anthony J., Kycia, Jan B., Halpern, Mark and Schulte, Eric 2007. Electrical and optical measurements on the first SCUBA-2 prototype 1280pixel submillimeter superconducting bolometer array. Review of Scientific Instruments 78 (2) , 024502. 10.1063/1.2436839

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Abstract

SCUBA-2 is a submillimeter camera being built for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii. Bringing CCD style imaging to the submillimeter for the first time, with over 10000pixels, it will provide a revolutionary improvement in sensitivity and mapping speed. We present results of the first tests on a prototype 1280pixel SCUBA-2 subarray; the full instrument will be made up of eight such subarrays. The array is made up of transition edge sensor (TES) detectors, with Mo/Cu bilayers as the sensing element. To keep the number of wires reasonable, a multiplexed readout is used. Unlike previous TES arrays, an in-focal plane multiplexer configuration is used, in which the multiplexing elements are located beneath each pixel. To achieve the required performance, the detectors are operated at a temperature of approximately 120mK. We describe the results of a basic electrical and optical characterization of the array, demonstrating that it is fully operational. Noise measurements were made on several pixels and gave a noise equivalent power below 2.5×10−17WHZ−0.5, within the requirements for SCUBA-2. The construction of the testbed used to carry out these measurements is also described.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Publisher:	American Institute of Physics
ISSN:	0034-6748
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2022 09:49
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/60196

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