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Title: Results and Limits of Time-Division Multiplexing for the BICEP Array High-Frequency Receivers

Journal Article · · Journal of Low Temperature Physics
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  1. California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States); National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO (United States); SLAC
  2. Cardiff Univ. (United Kingdom)
  3. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  4. Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
  5. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (United States)
  6. California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Jet Propulsion Lab. (JPL)
  7. Univ. of Cincinnati, OH (United States)
  8. Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
  9. Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
  10. California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
  11. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Kavli Inst. for Cosmological Physics (KICP)
  12. Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Grenoble (France)
  13. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
  14. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Enrico Fermi Inst.
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Time-division multiplexing is the readout architecture of choice for many ground and space experiments, as it is a very mature technology with proven outstanding low-frequency noise stability, which represents a central challenge in multiplexing. Once fully populated, each of the two BICEP Array high-frequency receivers, observing at 150 GHz and 220/270 GHz, will have 7776 TES detectors tiled on the focal plane. The constraints set by these two receivers required a redesign of the warm readout electronics. The new version of the standard multichannel electronics, developed and built at the University of British Columbia, is presented here for the first time. BICEP Array operates time-division multiplexing readout technology to the limits of its capabilities in terms of multiplexing rate, noise and cross talk, and applies them in rigorously demanding scientific application requiring extreme noise performance and systematic error control. Finally, future experiments like CMB-S4 plan to use TES bolometers with time-division/SQUID-based readout for an even larger number of detectors.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
2403657
Journal Information:
Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Low Temperature Physics Vol. 216; ISSN 0022-2291
Publisher:
Springer NatureCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (6)

Functional Description of Read-out Electronics for Time-Domain Multiplexed Bolometers for Millimeter and Sub-millimeter Astronomy journal January 2008
Characterizing the Sensitivity of 40 GHz TES Bolometers for BICEP Array journal February 2020
BICEP Array: 150 GHz Detector Module Development journal October 2023
Improved Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves using Planck , WMAP, and BICEP/ Keck Observations through the 2018 Observing Season journal October 2021
Receiver development for BICEP Array, a next-generation CMB polarimeter at the South Pole
  • Moncelsi, Lorenzo; Ade, Peter A.; Ahmed, Zeeshan
  • Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561995
conference December 2020
Conceptual design of the modular detector and readout system for the CMB-S4 survey experiment
  • Barron, Darcy; Ahmed, Zeeshan; Aguilar, Jessica
  • Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630494
conference August 2022

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