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This superconducting electronics company offers design, development, fabrication, testing and packaging services for their digital Radio Frequency (RF) product-lines. The goal of the Phase II is to develop a cryogenic digital readout scheme of cryogenic microwave kinetic inductance detector (MKID) arrays, using superconductor analog-to-digital converter (ADC) technology. The application of this technology (ADC’s ) to the MKID array has the potential to scale back or eliminate the most power hungry component (the HEMT amplifier) in current read out systems and allow the number of pixels in the array to grow, improving image resolution and field of view. The concurrent ADC improvements will improve the HYPRES Advanced Digital Receivers ability to contribute to spectral dominance in naval multi-function RF applications, including communications, Electronic Warfare (EW), Intelligence, Surveillance (target identification), Reconnaissance (ISR) and Radar.

This Phase II will develop a cryogenic digital readout scheme of cryogenic microwave kinetic inductance detector (MKID) arrays, using superconductor analog-to-digital converter (ADC) technology.