DarkOpt 0.1.0

TES/QET based Detector modeling and optimization

Package for Optimizing QET based Phonon sensitive Detectors.

The code structure follows that of a real detector.

A Detector object is composed of an Absorber object and a QET object. A QET is composed of at TES object. Absorber, QET, and TES objects have material properties that are passed from darkopt.materials.

See Examples/example.ipynb for usage of the package

Installation

To install the most recent (stable) development version of DarkOpt, clone this repo, then from the top-level directory of the repo, type the following line into your command line

pip install .

You may need to add the --user flag if using a shared Python installation.

This package requires python 3.6 or greater. A current version of Anaconda3 should be sufficient, however a conda environment file as well as a list of dependencies is provided (condaenv.yml and requirements.txt)

TODO

• Add Tc dependent plots

Work needed:

• Currently assumes bare crystal surface is elastic process, no down conversion
  • Think it is < 1%
  • Number of bounces before phonons go subgap ?
  • Need Down Conversion but now bellow 1 meV
• Lowering W Tc and Fin Tc (are the set values correct?)

This is based on erlier work from Matt Pyle's matlab optimization code.