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