Jul 22 – 26, 2019
Milano
Europe/Rome timezone

Detailed STJ and MCA Characterization with a Pulsed UV Laser

Jul 23, 2019, 5:45 PM
1h 15m
Piazza Città di Lombardia (Milano)

Piazza Città di Lombardia

Milano

Piazza Città di Lombardia, 1, 20124 Milano MI
Poster Low Temperature Detector Development and Physics Poster session

Speaker

Dr Stephan Friedrich (Lawrence Livemore National Laboratory)

Description

The response of high-resolution detectors to a short-pulse laser consists of a set of equidistant peaks corresponding to integer numbers of absorbed photons that follow Poisson statistics. Since the laser has a negligible intrinsic line width, the peaks can be used for detailed characterization of the detector and the data acquisition system. We have characterized superconducting tunnel junction (STJ) photon detectors in the UV and soft X-ray range with a pulsed 355 nm laser at rates up to 5000 counts/s. The observed peaks are described by a Gaussian to very high accuracy, with a width between ~1 and ~2 eV FWHM depending on the detector area. For high statistics, centroids can be determined with an accuracy of a few meV over a range of hundreds of eV. This allows identifying non-linearities in the detector and the digitizer that can limit the accuracy of centroid measurements.

Student (Ph.D., M.Sc. or B.Sc.) N
Less than 5 years of experience since completion of Ph.D N

Primary authors

Dr Stephan Friedrich (Lawrence Livemore National Laboratory) Dr Francisco Ponce (Stanford University) Robin Cantor (STAR Cryoelectronics)

Presentation materials