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VHF Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Contact: Jeremy Thomas.
Identifier: doi:10.18434/mds2-3156
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We report on the design, fabrication, and measurement of a Very High Frequency band Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer (VHF-JAWS) at frequencies from 1~kHz to 50.05~MHz. The VHF-JAWS chip is composed of a series array of 12,810 Josephson junctions (JJs) embedded in a superconducting coplanar waveguide. Each JJ responds to a pattern of current pulses by creating a corresponding pattern of voltage pulses, each with a time-integrated area related to fundamental constants as $\textit{\textbf{h/2e}}$. The pulse patterns are chosen to produce quantum-based single-tone voltage waveforms with an open-circuit voltage of 50~mV~rms (\\mbox{-19.03~dBm} output power into 50~$\\Omega$ load impedances) at frequencies up to 50.05~MHz, which is more than twice the voltage that has been generated by previous RF-JAWS designs at 1~GHz. The VHF-JAWS is "quantum-locked", that is, it generates one quantized output voltage pulse per input current pulse per JJ while varying the dc current through the JJ array by at least 0.4~mA and the amplitude of the bias pulses by at least 10~\\%. We use the large bias pulse quantum-locking range to investigate one source of error in detail: the direct feedthrough of the current bias pulses into the DUT at VHF frequencies. We reduce this error by high-pass filtering the current bias pulses and measure the error as a function of input pulse amplitude using two techniques: by measuring small changes over the quantum-locking range and by passively attenuating the input pulse amplitude so that the nonlinear JJs no longer generate voltage pulses while the error is only linearly scaled.
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NIST R&D: Metrology: Electrical/electromagnetic metrologyElectronics: Superconducting electronics
Keywords: Josephson junction arraysdigital-analog conversionsignal synthesissuperconducting integrated circuitssuperconducting microwave devicesShow more...
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Jeremy Thomas (2024), VHF Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, National Institute of Standards and Technology, https://doi.org/10.18434/mds2-3156 (Accessed 2025-06-13)
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