Future EM-astrophysics is super(conducting): Microwave Kinetic - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Future EM-astrophysics is super(conducting): Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors, physics and UV-to-NIR applications Speaker: Alma Mater Studiorum: Enrico Biancalani University of Bologna Astro-Instrumentation Seminar, Königstuhl’s Landessternwarte, 18 January 2018 Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 1/30

Towards a novel concept of integral-field spectrograph Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 2/30

ARCONS: first optical MKID-array on sky, at Palomar Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 3/30

Background: the discovery of superconductivity in DC Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 4/30

Background: Cooper “pairs” and the dissipation in AC Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 5/30

Background: superconducting kinetic inductance effect Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 6/30

Working principle of MKIDs: breaking Cooper “pairs” Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 7/30

Ketterle in Heidelberg, about ultracold atomic physics Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 8/30

Phase-amplitude shift & ν -domain multiplexing (FDM) Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 9/30

Phase shift from a 254-nm photon and the Crab pulsar Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 10/30

3 . 2 ± 0 . 5 % enhancement if “gr” pulse is soon after “o” Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 11/30

Average optical profile of the peak, for the main pulse Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 12/30

11 . 3 ± 2 . 5 % enhancement if the two peaks coincide Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 13/30

AM CVn short-period eclipsing binary: (400–550) nm Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 14/30

Curves at different ∆ λ s and mean-count-rate scaled Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 15/30

The Dark-speckle NIR E-resolved Superconducting Spectrophotometer Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 16/30

First MKID coronagraphic exoplanet hunter, at Palomar Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 17/30

Transmission for identical structures: PtSi versus TiN Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 18/30

Phase- ν calibration and coronagraph rejection testing Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 19/30

“Moore’s law” for sub-mm detectors and MKID-arrays Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 20/30

New IRAM Kid Array 2: Hilbert-like fractal-pattern KIDs Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 21/30

An optical spectrometer for KIDSpec’s feasibility study Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 22/30

A fibre for the cryostat: etiology of the circular patterns Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 23/30

The Keck Radiometer Array using KID Eergy Sensors Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 24/30

Predicted total throughput and total sky count rate/pixel Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 25/30

SCExAO+MEC: possible first-light visiting instruments Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 26/30

Comparison between exoplanets discovering methods Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 27/30

Spectral differential imaging and dark speckle method Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 28/30

Habitable exoplanets in sight: the goal of next decade Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 29/30

New horizons with the Dragonfly nulling interferometer Enrico Biancalani MKID Project 30/30