• DocumentCode
    1645382
  • Title

    A 1.5 THz Hot-Electron Bolometer mixer operated by a planar diode based local oscillator

  • Author

    Tong, C.-Y.E. ; Meledin, D. ; Loudkov, D. ; Blundell, R. ; Erickson, N. ; Kawamura, J. ; Mehdi, I. ; Gol´tsman, G.

  • Author_Institution
    Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophys., Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2003
  • Firstpage
    751
  • Abstract
    We have developed a 1.5 THz superconducting NbN Hot-Electron Bolometer mixer. It is operated by an all-solid-state Local Oscillator comprising of a cascade of 4 planar doublers following an MMIC based W-band power amplifier. The threshold available pump power is estimated to be 1 /spl mu/W.
  • Keywords
    MMIC power amplifiers; bolometers; frequency multipliers; hot carriers; niobium compounds; submillimetre wave diodes; submillimetre wave mixers; submillimetre wave oscillators; superconducting mixers; 1 muW; 1.5 THz; MMIC W-band power amplifier; NbN; all-solid-state local oscillator; planar diode frequency doubler cascade; superconducting NbN hot electron bolometer mixer; Bolometers; Extraterrestrial measurements; Frequency; Local oscillators; MMICs; Optical waveguides; Power amplifiers; Receivers; Schottky diodes; Space technology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Symposium Digest, 2003 IEEE MTT-S International
  • Conference_Location
    Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • ISSN
    0149-645X
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7695-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWSYM.2003.1212480
  • Filename
    1212480
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1645382