Abstract
We have evaluated and tried to improve the measurement precision of a bit error rate (BER) measuring system for superconducting circuits equipped with a magnetic shield and a cryocooler. A noise model has suggested that the most effective way of improving BER is to reduce the noise figure of the wideband pulse amplifier (WPA). BER measurement using a 3-Gbps, 2/sup 15/-1 pseudo random binary signal showed that by using low-noise WPA (noisefigure=4 dB) a 12.0-mV output voltage is required to obtain a minimum BER of 1.19/spl times/10/sup -15/ (a 10/sup -7/ improvement over the previous system) for a 50 /spl Omega/ standard microstrip. A BER of a La/sub 0.2/Yb/sub 0.9/Ba/sub 1.9/Cu/sub 3/O/sub x//MgO/Au microstrip-line to coplanar-waveguide transition-line converter (MCC) was also measured. It was found that the minimum BER was 4.87/spl times/10/sup -13/ (a 10/sup -5/ improvement over the previous system) when the output voltage was 23.8-mV. However these measured BER values were larger than those expected by the noise model. The cause of the larger measured BER is discussed. A minimum BER of 3.64/spl times/10/sup -55/ in 14.8-mV output voltage for a 50 /spl Omega/ standard microstrip was obtained when the cryo-cooler was not operated (without the noise from a cryo-cooler).
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