Title :
Resonant tunnelling diode oscillator as an alternative LO for SIS receiver applications
Author :
Blundell, Raymond ; Brown, E.R. ; Parker, C.D.
Author_Institution :
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophys., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
The resonant tunnelling diode (RTD) oscillator has been demonstrated for the first time as a local oscillator (LO) in a heterodyne receiver. Noise measurements made on a sensitive 200 GHz superconductor-insulator-superconductor receiver using both a multiplied Gunn diode and an RTD oscillator as the LO revealed no difference in receiver noise as a function of oscillator type.
Keywords :
microwave oscillators; resonant tunnelling devices; superconducting junction devices; superconductive tunnelling; tunnel diodes; 200 GHz; RTD oscillator; heterodyne receiver; local oscillator; multiplied Gunn diode; oscillator type; receiver noise; resonant tunnelling diode; superconductor-insulator-superconductor receiver;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19930197
