Jul 22 – 26, 2019
Milano
Europe/Rome timezone

On-sky demonstration of the SPT-3G frequency domain multiplexed readout

Jul 24, 2019, 8:30 AM
15m
Auditorium G. Testori (Milano)

Auditorium G. Testori

Milano

Piazza Città di Lombardia, 1, 20124 Milano MI
Oral Presentation Detector readout, signal processing, and related technologies Orals LM 002

Speaker

Amy Bender (Argonne National Laboratory)

Description

Frequency domain multiplexing (fMux) is an established technique for the readout of large arrays of transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers. Each TES in a multiplexing module has a unique AC voltage bias that is selected from a combined waveform by a resonant filter. This scheme enables the operation and readout of multiple bolometers on a single pair of wires, reducing thermal loading onto sub-Kelvin thermal stages. The current receiver on the South Pole Telescope, SPT-3G, uses an 68x fMux system to operate its large-format camera of ~16,000 TES bolometers. SPT-3G is currently in its second year of survey observations of the cosmic microwave background. We present here the successful implementation and performance of the SPT-3G readout as measured in the fully integrated on-sky configuration. Measurements of the instrumental noise demonstrate that SPT-3G is operating in the photon-noise dominated regime.

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

Primary authors

Amy Bender (Argonne National Laboratory) SPT-3G Collaboration

Presentation materials