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The Terahertz Intensity Mapper (TIM) is a NASA far-infrared balloon mission designed to perform [CII] intensity mapping of the peak of cosmic star formation. To achieve this goal, TIM will fly two grating spectrometers that together cover the 240–420 \(\upmu \mathrm {m}\) wavelength range at a spectral resolution, \(R \sim 250\). Each spectrometer will require a large format (\(\sim 3600\) detectors) array of dual-polarization sensitive detectors, which are photon noise limited at the 100 fW of loading expected during operation. We present the design of a fully-aluminum low-volume lumped-element kinetic inductance detector that incorporates a novel “chain-link” absorber design. Operating at 215 mK, we demonstrate this detector achieves a photon noise limited performance at 100 fW of optical loading with a white noise spectrum down to 1 Hz. Based upon noise measurements of a dark detector, which shows a quasi-particle lifetime of \(300\,\upmu \mathrm {s}\), these KIDs are expected to achieve a detector-limited noise equivalent power of \(\sim 1.3\times 10^{-18} \ \mathrm {W}/\sqrt{\mathrm {Hz}}\).
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R.M.J. Janssen is supported by an appointment to the NASA Postdoctoral Program at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, administered by Oak Ridge Associated Universities under contract with NASA. TIM is supported by NASA under grant 80NSSC19K1242, issued through the Science Mission Directorate. Part of this research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (80NM0018D0004).
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Janssen, R.M.J., Nie, R., Bumble, B. et al. Single Pixel Performance of the Kinetic Inductance Detectors for the Terahertz Intensity Mapper. J Low Temp Phys 211, 197–206 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-022-02830-9
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