Bipolar Waveform Synthesis with an Optically Driven Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer

Published

April 19, 2022

Author(s)

Justus Brevik, Dahyeon Lee, Anna Fox, Yiwei Peng, Akim Babenko, Joe Campbell, Paul Dresselhaus, Franklyn Quinlan, Samuel P. Benz

Abstract

An array of Josephson junctions (JJs) was driven with photonically generated current pulses to synthesize a high-fidelity 1 kHz bipolar voltage waveform with a quantum-based amplitude that can be directly related to fundamental constants. A photodiode capable of producing high average photocurrent was used to generate large-amplitude current pulses that were ac-coupled to a JJ array. The resulting bipolar current pulses have enabled the first demonstration of quantum-based bipolar waveform synthesis with an optical drive. We measured the quantum locking range with respect to several operating parameters, including 1.2 mA with respect to a dc bias current applied to the array, confirming the robust synthesis of bipolar waveforms.

Citation

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volume

32

Pub Type

Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2022.3167660

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Keywords

Cryogenic photonic links, Josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizer, Josephson junction (JJ) arrays, photodiodes.

Citation

Brevik, J. , Lee, D. , Fox, A. , Peng, Y. , Babenko, A. , Campbell, J. , Dresselhaus, P. , Quinlan, F. and Benz, S. (2022), Bipolar Waveform Synthesis with an Optically Driven Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, [online], https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2022.3167660, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=933999 (Accessed October 10, 2025)