Detector technology
MKID
A superconducting detector that records not just the arrival of a photon but its energy and precise time, with no read noise. Operating at temperatures near absolute zero, MKIDs are a frontier technology for the millimetre, submillimetre, and optical sky, and scale to large arrays.
Facilities, methods & instruments
Used across the frontier
Knowledge connections
- Associated withSubmillimeter
- Associated withMillimeter
- Associated withSpectroscopy
- Associated withCryogenic Detector
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- NSF NOIRLabNSF National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory
Ground-based optical/infrared observatory data and imagery.