KIDSpec technology development: Opening a new window on the Universe, one photon at a time.

KIDSpec 技术开发：一次一个光子打开宇宙的新窗口。

• 批准号: ST/M003868/1
• 负责人: Ghassan Yassin
• 金额: $ 34.4万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FM003868%2F1
• 关键词: KIDSpec; technology; development; Opening; new

Energy-resolving detectors are a step towards the 'ultimate detector' for astronomy and many other applications besides. Kinetic Inductance detectors (KIDs) are a transformational technology based on superconducting resonators that have opened the way for large arrays of zero-noise, energy sensitive (3-D) detectors in the important optical and near-IR (UVOIR) regime. Our goal is to bring together the components necessary to comprise the first european UVOIR KID spectrograph. Whilst these have been demonstrated at the component level, we will use the expertise and experience in our team to build a complete system, including the detector, cryogenics and read-out electronics. We will use this system to develop the conceptual design of a powerful medium spectral resolution, broad band (0.3 - 2.5 micrometers) spectrograph. This Kinetic Inductance Detector Spectrograph (KIDSpec) would be a uniquely powerful instrument more than an order of magnitude more sensitive than existing equivalent instrumentation using semiconductor detectors. At the heart of the instrument is the ability of the KIDs to discern the order from a diffraction grating. It is this ability that we will demonstrate for the first time with this project. At the end of the project, we will use this technology development to push forwards to the first KIDSpec instrument at a major astronomical observatory. Such an instrument is perfectly suited to the E-ELT, as the zero read-noise, photon-counting operation maximises the pay-off from the enormous collecting area of this next generation telescope.The moderate investment requested in this proposal will enable us to perform a unique experiment, but equally importantly it will enable us to build the knowledge and experience to put UK researchers at the heart of this truly revolutionary field. Kinetic Inductance Detector arrays have the capacity to revolutionise astronomy in the same manner as the move from photographic plates to digital detectors did 30 years ago and this proposal will place us at the forefront of this nascent field.

能量分辨探测器是迈向天文学和许多其他应用的“终极探测器”的一步。动态电感探测器（KID）是一种基于超导谐振器的变革性技术，其为重要的光学和近红外（UVOIR）领域中的大阵列零噪声、能量敏感（3-D）探测器开辟了道路。我们的目标是将组成第一台欧洲UVOIR KID光谱仪所需的组件汇集在一起。虽然这些已经在组件层面上得到了证明，但我们将利用我们团队的专业知识和经验来构建一个完整的系统，包括探测器，低温和读出电子设备。我们将使用这个系统来开发一个强大的中等光谱分辨率，宽带（0.3 - 2.5微米）摄谱仪的概念设计。这种动力学电感探测器光谱仪（KIDSpec）将是一种独特的强大仪器，比现有的使用半导体探测器的同等仪器灵敏一个数量级以上。该仪器的核心是KID从衍射光栅中辨别阶数的能力。我们将在这个项目中首次展示这种能力。在项目结束时，我们将利用这项技术开发，在一个主要的天文观测站推出第一台KIDSpec仪器。这种仪器非常适合E-ELT，因为零读取噪声，光子计数操作最大限度地提高了下一代望远镜巨大收集面积的回报。本提案中要求的适度投资将使我们能够进行独特的实验，但同样重要的是，它将使我们能够建立知识和经验，使英国研究人员成为这个真正革命性领域的核心。动态电感探测器阵列有能力以30年前从照相底片到数字探测器的方式彻底改变天文学，这项提议将使我们处于这一新兴领域的最前沿。

项目成果

MKID digital readout tuning with deep learning

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ascom.2018.03.001
• 发表时间: 2018-04
• 期刊: Astron. Comput.
• 作者: Rupert Dodkins;S. Mahashabde;K. O’Brien;N. Thatte;Neelay Fruitwala;A. Walter;S. Meeker;P. Szypryt;B. Mazin

Fast multi-wavelength broad-band and QPO variability in a black hole X-ray binary: accretion flow and/or a jet origin?

黑洞 X 射线双星中的快速多波长宽带和 QPO 变化：吸积流和/或喷流起源？

• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: The Extremes of Black Hole Accretion
• 作者: Kalamkar M.

A Compact Microstrip-Fed Planar Dual-Dipole Antenna for Broadband Applications

• DOI: 10.1109/lawp.2015.2462114
• 发表时间: 2016-01-01
• 期刊: IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS
• 影响因子: 4.2
• 作者: Tan, Boon-Kok;Withington, Stafford;Yassin, Ghassan
• 通讯作者: Yassin, Ghassan

Science with KRAKENS

与 Krakens 一起科学

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.03458
• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: arXiv e-prints
• 作者: Mazin Benjamin A.

Experimental Investigation of a Superconducting Switch at Millimeter Wavelengths

毫米波长超导开关的实验研究

• DOI: 10.1109/tthz.2015.2503144
• 发表时间: 2016
• 期刊: IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology
• 影响因子: 3.2
• 作者: Tan B