Functional Description of Read-out Electronics for?Time-Domain Multiplexed Bolometers for?Millimeter and Sub-millimeter Astronomy
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- 作者：E. S. Battistelli ; M. Amiri ; B. Burger ; M. Halpern ; S. Knotek ; M. Ellis ; X. Gao ; D. Kelly ; M. MacIntosh and K. Irwin ; et al.
- 关键词：Read ; out electronics ; SQUID ; Time ; domain multiplexing ; Millimeter and sub ; millimeter astronomy
- 刊名：Journal of Low Temperature Physics
- 出版年：2008
- 出版时间：May, 2008
- 年：2008
- 卷：151
- 期：3-4
- 页码：908-914
- 全文大小：284.7 KB
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We have developed multi-channel electronics (MCE) which work in concert with time-domain multiplexors developed at NIST, to control and read signals from large format bolometer arrays of superconducting transition edge sensors (TESs). These electronics were developed as part of the Submillimeter Common-User Bolometer Array-2 (SCUBA2 ) camera, but are now used in several other instruments. The main advantages of these electronics compared to earlier versions is that they are multi-channel, fully programmable, suited for remote operations and provide a clean geometry, with no electrical cabling outside of the Faraday cage formed by the cryostat and the electronics chassis. The MCE is used to determine the optimal operating points for the TES and the superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) amplifiers autonomously. During observation, the MCE execute a running PID-servo and apply to each first stage SQUID a feedback signal necessary to keep the system in a linear regime at optimal gain. The feedback and error signals from a ∼1000-pixel array can be written to hard drive at up to 2 kHz.