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Dr. Miguel Daal

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Proceedings Article | 5 October 2023 Presentation

Scaling photonic integrated circuits with superconducting microwave kinetic inductance detectors

Majid Mohammad, Miguel Daal, Gopi Meena, Renan Moreira, Ben Mazin, Hawkins Clay, Galan Moody

Proceedings Volume 12673, 126730L (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677607

KEYWORDS: Waveguides, Resonators, Sapphire, Microwave radiation, Inductance, Photonic integrated circuits, Cladding, Silicon, Superconductors, Multiplexing

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Poster

An MKID camera for use behind MagAO-X

Noah Swimmer, Benjamin Mazin, John Bailey, Jared Males, Gregoire Coiffard, Miguel Daal, Kristina Davis, Paul Szypryt, Seth Meeker, Alexander Walter, Clint Bockstiegel, Neelay Fruitwala, Isabel Lipartito, Nicholas Zobrist, Sarah Steiger, Jennifer Smith, Hawkins Clay

Proceedings Volume 12184, 121843Z (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629573

KEYWORDS: Cameras, Sensors, Exoplanets, Adaptive optics, Wavefront sensors, Visible radiation, Speckle, Photon counting, Photodetectors, Optical filters

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Proceedings Article | 26 August 2022 Poster

M-MOST: The MKID Multi-Object Echelle(tte) Spectrographic Testbench

John I. Bailey, Benjamin A. Mazin, Jennifer P. Smith, Crystal S. Kim, W. Hawkins Clay, Nicholas Zobrist, Noah J. Swimmer, Sarah Steiger, Miguel Daal

Proceedings Volume 12188, 121884Z (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2629519

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Astronomical imaging, Spectrographs, Spectral resolution, Cameras, Target detection, Semiconducting wafers, Optical fabrication, Optical components, Multimode fibers

Proceedings Article | 1 August 2021 Presentation

On-sky demonstration of stochastic speckle discrimination for companion detection with the MKID Exoplanet Camera (MEC)

Sarah Steiger, Thayne Currie, Timothy Brandt, Olivier Guyon, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Jeffrey Chilcote, Tyler Groff, Julien Lozi, Alexander Walter, Neelay Fruitwala, John Bailey, Nicholas Zobrist, Noah Swimmer, Isabel Lipartito, Jennifer Smith, Clint Bockstiegel, Seth Meeker, Gregoire Coiffard, Rupert Dodkins, Paul Szypryt, Kristina Davis, Miguel Daal, Bruce Bumble, Sebastien Vievard, Ananya Sahoo, Vincent Deo, Nemanja Jovanovic, Frantz Martinache, Motohide Tamura, Benjamin Mazin

Proceedings Volume 11823, 1182307 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594872

KEYWORDS: Speckle, Stochastic processes, Exoplanets, Cameras, Sensors, Point spread functions, Stars, Signal to noise ratio, Photodetectors, Image resolution

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SPIE Journal Paper | 10 February 2021

Improving the dynamic range of single photon counting kinetic inductance detectors

Nicholas Zobrist, Nikita Klimovich, ByeongHo Eom, Grégoire Coiffard, Miguel Daal, Noah Swimmer, Sarah Steiger, Bruce Bumble, Henry LeDuc, Peter Day, Benjamin Mazin

JATIS, Vol. 7, Issue 01, 010501, (February 2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.7.1.010501

KEYWORDS: Photons, Sensors, Inductance, Spectral resolution, Single photon, Hafnium, Resonators, Microwave radiation, Signal detection, Data modeling

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Paper

The PICTURE-C MKID camera

Noah Swimmer, Benjamin Mazin, Clint Bockstiegel, John Bailey, Gregoire Coiffard, Miguel Daal, Kristina Davis, Neelay Fruitwala, Isabel Lipartito, Jennifer Smith, Sarah Steiger, Nicholas Zobrist, Timothy Cook, Supriya Chakrabarti, Christopher Mendillo, Jason Martel, Kuravi Hewawasam

Proceedings Volume 11447, 114479B (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561770

KEYWORDS: Cameras, Exoplanets, Iterated function systems, Optical imaging, Sensors, Photon counting, Spectrographs, Microwave radiation, Inductance, Spatial resolution

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Proceedings Article | 2 March 2020 Presentation + Paper

Status and future developments of integrated photonic spectrographs for astronomy and Earth and planetary sciences

N. Jovanovic, N. Cvetojevic, M. Daal, B. Mazin, R. Moreira, D. Mawet, G. Vasisht, C. Beichman, K. Wallace, J. Jewell, S. Leifer, R. Dekany, M. Porter

Proceedings Volume 11287, 112870K (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2546959

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Astronomy, Telescopes, Waveguides, Single mode fibers, Spectral resolution, Sensors, Integrated photonics, Planetary science, Photonic devices

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2018 Presentation

Microwave kinetic inductance detectors for visible to near infrared astronomy (Conference Presentation)

Gregoire Coiffard, Benjamin Mazin, Miguel Daal, Nicholas Zobrist, Paul Szypryt

Proceedings Volume 10709, 107091M (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313002

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Astronomy, Near infrared, Microwave radiation, Inductance, Infrared sensors, Visible radiation, Superconductors, Photons, Technetium

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Mazin Lab at UCSB is developing MKID instrument for astronomy at near infrared, optical and ultraviolet wavelength. We use MIKDs as single photon detectors by measuring the arrival time of incoming photons with an accuracy of a few microseconds and with a relatively high energy resolution (R~10 at 1um). We fabricate kilopixels array of MKIDs and we incorporate them in our own instruments for UVOIR astronomy with the main application being exoplanets direct imaging. We present the work being made in our lab in the development and fabrication of 10 to 20k pixels arrays for the DARKNESS (Dark-speckle Near-IR Energy-resolved Superconducting Spectrophotometer) and MEC (MKID Exoplanet Camera) instruments, respectively. The 6-step fabrication process has been upgraded over the last months in order to improve the sensitivity of the arrays. The detectors are made of platinum silicide (PtSi) since MKIDs with very high internal quality factor have been successfully fabricated from this material. Furthermore, PtSi with very uniform superconducting properties over 4inch substrate are much more easier to deposit than the regular TiN used in most existing MKIDs technology. Among various upgrades, we coated the PtSi sensitive area with a SiO2/Ta2O5 bi-layer in order to reduce the reflection of optical photons hitting the detectors. The light absorption is increased by a factor of 2 in the instruments bandwidth. The DARKNESS instrument has been successfully commissioned last summer and MEC, the world largest superconducting camera, is installed at the Subaru telescope since the beginning of the year. Our effort leads to the fabrication of arrays of detectors with a median internal quality factor of 100 000 with an energy resolution of 10 at 1um and a pixel yield approaching 95%. In addition, we will present new MKID design in which the conventional meander inductor and interdigitated capacitor are replaced by a square inductor and a large parallel plate capacitor made of two metal plates separated by a ~10-nm thick dielectric layer. This parallel plate design allows us to drive the MKIDs at a higher power, which in turns should increase the sensitivity of the detectors. Following promising results from our first design, second generation of parallel plate MKID devices have been made from Hf/HfO2/Nb tri-layers deposited in-sit. We obtained high quality factor from the parallel plate MKIDs and we were able to detect photons with this new MKIDs design. Another way to improve the sensitivity of MKIDs is to use a low Tc material, compared to Tc ~ 1K usually used. We fabricated MKIDs arrays with superconducting Hafnium, Tc = 450mK, and we demonstrated that resonators with very high internal quality factors Qi~300 000 and an energy resolution of 9 at 808nm can be achieved.

Proceedings Article | 27 June 2006 Paper

Power dependence of phase noise in microwave kinetic inductance detectors

Jiansong Gao, Benjamin Mazin, Miguel Daal, Peter Day, Henry LeDuc, Jonas Zmuidzinas

Proceedings Volume 6275, 627509 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.672590

KEYWORDS: Resonators, Microwave radiation, Luminescence, Sensors, Inductance, Interference (communication), Silicon, Superconductors, Aluminum, Solids

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