Repurposing ROACH-1 boards for prototyping of readout systems for optical-NIR MKIDs

Oisín Creaner; Colm Bracken; Jack Piercy; Gerhard Ulbricht; Eoin Baldwin; Mario De Lucia; Tom Ray

doi:10.1117/12.2626985

29 August 2022 Repurposing ROACH-1 boards for prototyping of readout systems for optical-NIR MKIDs

Oisín Creaner, Colm Bracken, Jack Piercy, Gerhard Ulbricht, Eoin Baldwin, Mario De Lucia, Tom Ray

Proceedings Volume 12191, X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy X; 1219112 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2626985
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Abstract

Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) are cryogenic photon detectors and are attractive because they permit simultaneous time, energy and spatial resolution of faint astronomical sources. We present a cost-effective alternative to dedicated (e.g. analogue) electronics for prototyping readout of single-pixel Optical/NIR MKIDs by repurposing existing and well-known ROACH-1 boards. We also present a pipeline that modernises previously-developed software and data frameworks to allow for extensibility to new applications and portability to new hardware (e.g. Xilinx ZCU111 or 2x2 RFSoC boards).

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Oisín Creaner, Colm Bracken, Jack Piercy, Gerhard Ulbricht, Eoin Baldwin, Mario De Lucia, and Tom Ray "Repurposing ROACH-1 boards for prototyping of readout systems for optical-NIR MKIDs", Proc. SPIE 12191, X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy X, 1219112 (29 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2626985

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