Optimizing the pump coupling for a three-wave mixing Josephson parametric amplifier

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07208v1
• Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 18:33:06 GMT
• Title: Optimizing the pump coupling for a three-wave mixing Josephson parametric amplifier
• Authors: Wei Dai, Gangqiang Liu, Vidul Joshi, Alessandro Miano, Volodymyr Sivak, Shyam Shankar, Michel H. Devoret,
• Abstract summary: We discuss how to optimize the pump coupling scheme for a three-wave mixing JPA by employing microwave filtering techniques. We implement the corresponding filter design in a SNAIL-based JPA and demonstrate more than three orders of magnitude improvement in both power efficiency and pump leakage suppression. We show experimentally that the filter-coupled JPA is more robust against noise input from the pump port, exhibiting no significant change in added noise performance with up to 4 K of effective noise temperature at the pump port.
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• Abstract: Josephson element-based parametric amplifiers (JPAs) typically require rf pump power that is several orders of magnitude stronger than the maximum signal power they can handle. The low power efficiency and strong pump leakage towards signal circuitry could be critical concerns in application. In this work, we discuss how to optimize the pump coupling scheme for a three-wave mixing JPA by employing microwave filtering techniques, with the goal of maximizing the pump power efficiency and minimize pump leakage without sacrificing other properties of interest. We implement the corresponding filter design in a SNAIL-based JPA and demonstrate more than three orders of magnitude improvement in both power efficiency and pump leakage suppression compared to a similar device with regular capacitive coupling, while maintaining state-of-the-art dynamic range and near-quantum-limited noise performance. Furthermore, we show experimentally that the filter-coupled JPA is more robust against noise input from the pump port, exhibiting no significant change in added noise performance with up to 4 K of effective noise temperature at the pump port.

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