Abstract
The recently proposed Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifier (JTWPA) based on a ladder transmission line consisting of radio-frequency superconducting quantum interference devices and exploiting three-wave mixing has great potential in achieving both a gain of 20 dB and a flat bandwidth of at least 4 GHz. To realize this concept in practical amplifiers, we model the advanced JTWPA circuit with periodic modulation of the circuit parameters (engineered dispersion loadings), which allow the basic mixing process, i.e., ωs=ωp−ωi, where ωs, ωp, and ωi are the signal, the pump, and the idler frequencies, respectively, and efficiently suppress propagation of unwanted higher tones, including ω2p=2ωp, ωp+s=ωp+ωs, ωp+i=ωp+ωi, etc. The engineered dispersion loadings allow achieving a sufficiently wide 3 dB-bandwidth from 3 to 9 GHz combined with a reasonably small ripple (±2 dB) in the gain-vs-frequency dependence.
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