Superconducting Submm Integrated Receiver for TELIS

Autor:	Valery P. Koshelets, O. M. Pylypenko, Willem Vreeling, Pavel A. Yagoubov, Andrey Khudchenko, M. Yu. Torgashin, Lyudmila V. Filippenko, Andrey B. Ermakov, Ruud W. M. Hoogeveen, Wolfgang Wild, O. V. Koryukin, Alexander S. Sobolev
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	History Noise temperature Engineering Spectrometer business.industry Terahertz radiation Local oscillator Harmonic mixer Electrical engineering Computer Science Applications Education Telecommand Laser linewidth Interferometry Optics business
Zdroj:	Journal of Physics, Conference Series, 43(1), 1377-1380. IoP Publishing
ISSN:	1742-6596 1742-6588
DOI:	10.1088/1742-6596/43/1/337
Popis:	In this report we present design and first experimental results for development of the submm superconducting integrated receiver spectrometer for Terahertz Limb Sounder (TELIS). TELIS is a collaborative European project to build up a three-channel heterodyne balloon-based spectrometer for measuring a variety of atmospheric constituents of the stratosphere. The 550 - 650 GHz channel of TELIS is based on a phase-locked Superconducting Integrated Receiver (SIR). SIR is an on-chip combination of a low-noise Superconductor-Insulator-Superconductor (SIS) mixer with quasioptical antenna, a superconducting Flux Flow Oscillator (FFO) acting as Local Oscillator (LO), and SIS harmonic mixer (HM) for FFO phase locking. A number of new solutions were implemented in the new generation of SIR chips. To achieve the wide-band performance of the spectrometer, a side-feed twin-SIS mixer and balanced SIS mixer with 0.8 µm2 junctions integrated with a double-dipole (or double-slot) antenna is used. An improved design of the FFO for TELIS has been developed and optimized providing a free-running linewidth between 10 and 2 MHz in the frequency range 500 - 700 GHz. It is important to ensure that tuning of a phase-locked (PL) SIR can be performed remotely by telecommand. For this purpose a number of approaches for the PL SIR automatic computer control have been developed. All receiver components (including input optical elements and Martin-Puplett polarization rotating interferometer for single side band operation) will be mounted on a single 4.2 K plate inside a 40 × 180 × 80 mm3 box. First measurements give an uncorrected double side band (DSB) noise temperature below 250 K measured with the phase-locked FFO; more detailed results are presented at the conference.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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