Single SQUID multiplexer for arrays of Voltage-biased Superconducting Bolometers

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Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices, Signal Processing Electronics, Photoconductors And Bolometers

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We describe a frequency domain superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) multiplexer which monitors a row of low-temperature sensors simultaneously with a single SQUID. Each sensor is ac biased with a unique frequency and all the sensor currents are added in a superconducting summing loop. A single SQUID measures the current in the summing loop, and the individual signals are lock-in detected after the room temperature SQUID electronics. The current in the summing loop is nulled by feedback to eliminate direct crosstalk. In order to avoid the accumulation of Johnson noise in the summing loop, a tuned bandpass filter is inserted in series with each sensor. To multiplex 32 Voltage-biased Superconducting Bolometers (VSB) with 1 msec time constants a total bandwidth of 100 kHz is required. The minimum bias frequency is limited to >~500 kHz by practical limitations in the size of photolithographed inductors and capacitors. The major limitation of our multiplexing scheme is in the slew rate of the readout SQUID. We discuss a ``carrier nulling'' technique which could be used to increase the number of sensors in a row or to multiplex faster bolometers by reducing the required slew rate for a readout SQUID. .

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