Resonant Phase Matching of Josephson Junction Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifiers

Kevin O’Brien; Chris Macklin; Irfan Siddiqi; Xiang Zhang

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.157001

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Resonant Phase Matching of Josephson Junction Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifiers

Kevin O’Brien, Chris Macklin, Irfan Siddiqi, Xiang Zhang

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.157001 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

We propose a technique to overcome phase mismatch in Josephson-junction traveling wave parametric amplifiers in order to achieve high gain over a broad bandwidth. Using “resonant phase matching,” we design a compact superconducting device consisting of a transmission line with subwavelength resonant inclusions that simultaneously achieves a gain of 20 dB, an instantaneous bandwidth of 3 GHz, and a saturation power of −98 dBm. Such an amplifier is well suited to cryogenic broadband microwave measurements such as the multiplexed readout of quantum coherent circuits based on superconducting, semiconducting, or nanomechanical elements, as well as traditional astronomical detectors.