Photon noise from chaotic and coherent millimeter-wave sources measured with horn-coupled, aluminum lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors
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with horn-coupled, aluminum lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors D. Flanigan, a) H. McCarrick, G. Jones, B. R. Johnson, P. Ade, D. Araujo, K. Bradford, R. Cantor, G. Che, P. Day, S. Doyle, C. B. Kjellstrand, H. Leduc, M. Limon, V. Luu, P. Mauskopf, 3, 5 A. Miller, T. Mroczkowski, C. Tucker, and J. Zmuidzinas 8 1)Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA 2)School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales CF24 3AA, UK 3)School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA 4)STAR Cryoelectronics, Santa Fe, NM 87508, USA 5)Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA 6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA 7)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA 8)Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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