https://doi.org/10.1140/epjqt2
Research
Controlling the dynamic range of a Josephson parametric amplifier
Department of Physics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, 8093, Switzerland
* e-mail: eichlerc@phys.ethz.ch
Received:
30
May
2013
Accepted:
25
September
2013
Published online:
29
January
2014
One of the central challenges in the development of parametric amplifiers is the control of the dynamic range relative to its gain and bandwidth, which typically limits quantum limited amplification to signals which contain only a few photons per inverse bandwidth. Here, we discuss the control of the dynamic range of Josephson parametric amplifiers by using Josephson junction arrays. We discuss gain, bandwidth, noise, and dynamic range properties of both a transmission line and a lumped element based parametric amplifier. Based on these investigations we derive useful design criteria, which may find broad application in the development of practical parametric amplifiers.
© The Author(s), 2014
