Design and performance of SuperSpec: an on-chip, KID-based, mm-wavelength spectrometer

Shirokoff, E., Barry, P. S., Bradford, C. M., Chattopadhyay, G., Day, P., Doyle, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9054-986X, Hailey-Dunsheath, S., Hollister, M. I., Kovács, A., Leduc, H. G., McKenney, C. M., Mauskopf, P., Nguyen, H. T., O'Brient, R., Padin, S., Reck, T. J., Swenson, L. J., Tucker, C. E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-3918 and Zmuidzinas, J. 2014. Design and performance of SuperSpec: an on-chip, KID-based, mm-wavelength spectrometer. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 176 (5-6) , pp. 657-662. 10.1007/s10909-014-1122-8

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Abstract

SuperSpec is an ultra-compact spectrometer-on-a-chip for mm and submm wavelength astronomy. Its very small size, wide spectral bandwidth, and highly multiplexed detector readout will enable construction of powerful multi-object spectrometers for observations of galaxies at high redshift. SuperSpec is a filter bank with planar, lithographed, superconducting transmission line resonator filters and lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors made from Titanium Nitride. We have built an 81 detector prototype that operates in the 195–310 GHz band. The prototype has a wide-band metal feed horn with a transition to microstrip that feeds the filter bank. The prototype has demonstrated optical filter bank channels with a range of resolving powers from 300 to 700, measured fractional frequency noise of 10−17Hz−1 at 1Hz.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	0022-2291
Date of Acceptance:	28 January 2014
Last Modified:	16 May 2023 11:21
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/155721

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