Bipolar Pulse-Drive Electronics for a Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer

Author

Van den Brom, Helko E. ; Houtzager, Ernest ; Brinkmeier, Bernd E R ; Chevtchenko, Oleg A.

Author_Institution

NMi Van Swinden Lab. B.V., Delft

Volume

57

Issue

2

fYear

2008

Firstpage

428

Lastpage

431

Abstract

A Josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizer (JAWS) has been developed in order to generate quantum-based ac voltage signals. The key component of this JAWS is a modified commercial 30-Gb/s pattern generator that can generate ternary patterns (containing the values 1, 0, and 1, resulting in bipolar pulses). The new pulse-drive electronics have been successfully tested by driving Josephson arrays with bipolar current pulses from 1 to 30 Gb/s in order to study their current-voltage characteristics and the spectra of the JAWS signals.

Keywords

Josephson effect; pulse generators; spectral analysis; waveform generators; JAWS; Josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizer; bipolar pulse-drive electronics; bit rate 1 Gbit/s to 30 Gbit/s; current-voltage characteristics; pattern generator; quantum-based ac voltage signal generation; signal spectra; AC generators; Application specific integrated circuits; Electronic equipment testing; Josephson junctions; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse generation; Pulse measurements; Signal generators; Synthesizers; Voltage; AC Josephson voltage standard; Josephson junction array; metrology; pulse pattern generator; pulse-driven Josephson junction;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9456

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TIM.2007.908607

Filename

4427403