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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 115, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.5098469
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- NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship
- NASA [NNX16AE98G]
- NASA [NNX16AE98G, 905659] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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The energy resolution of a single photon counting microwave kinetic inductance detector can be degraded by noise coming from the primary low temperature amplifier in the detector's readout system. Until recently, quantum limited amplifiers have been incompatible with these detectors due to the dynamic range, power, and bandwidth constraints. However, we show that a kinetic inductance based traveling-wave parametric amplifier can be used for this application and reaches the quantum limit. The total system noise for this readout scheme was equal to similar to 2.1 in units of quanta. For incident photons in the 800-1300nm range, the amplifier increased the average resolving power of the detector from similar to 6.7 to 9.3 at which point the resolution becomes limited by noise on the pulse height of the signal. Noise measurements suggest that a resolving power of up to 25 is possible if the redesigned detectors can remove this additional noise source.
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