Title :
A data acquisition system for test and control of superconducting integrated receivers
Author :
Ermakov, Andrey B. ; Shitov, Sergey V. ; Baryshev, Andrey M. ; Koshelets, Valery P. ; Luinge, Willem
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Radio Eng. & Electron., Acad. of Sci., Moscow, Russia
fDate :
3/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A data acquisition system for the Integrated Receiver Test and Control (“IRTECON”) was developed and tested with the single-chip quasioptical receiver containing a planar double-dipole antenna SIS mixer and FFO as a local oscillator. The basic system includes a controlling computer with two acquisition cards, an analogue bias supply and GPIB linked peripheries. The system collects and analyzes I-V data of the FFO and SIS mixer, tunes their regimes over the receiver frequency range. The possibility to optimize automatically the receiver noise temperature is realized. This system can be adopted to control a wide range of SIS-based receiving system such as an imaging receiver on remote location
Keywords :
automatic testing; data acquisition; submillimetre wave receivers; superconducting device testing; superconducting integrated circuits; FFO local oscillator; GPIB linked periphery; I-V characteristics; IRTECON; analogue bias supply; computer control; data acquisition system; frequency tuning; noise temperature; planar double-dipole antenna SIS mixer; single-chip quasi-optical receiver; superconducting integrated receiver; test; Analog computers; Automatic control; Control systems; Data acquisition; Data analysis; Frequency; Local oscillators; Receiving antennas; Superconducting devices; System testing;
Journal_Title :
Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on
