Tunable compact on-chip superconducting switch

  1. Julia Zotova,
  2. Alexander Semenov,
  3. Rui Wang,
  4. Yu Zhou,
  5. Oleg Astafiev,
  6. and Jaw-Shen Tsai
We develop a compact four-port superconducting switch with a tunable operating frequency in the range of 4.8 GHz — 7.3 GHz. Isolation between channel exceeds 20~dB over a bandwidth of several hundred megahertz, exceeding 40 dB at some frequencies. The footprint of the device is 80×420 μm. The tunability requires only a global flux bias without either permanent magnets or micro-electromechanical structures. As the switch is superconducting, the heat dissipation during operation is negligible. The device can operate at up to -80~dBm, which is equal to 2.5×106 photons at 6 GHz per microsecond. The device show a possibility to be operated as a beamsplitter with tunable splitting ratio.

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