A photomixer local oscillator for a 630-GHz heterodyne receiver

作者: Simon Verghese , Erik K Duerr , KA McIntosh , Sean M Duffy , Stephen D Calawa

DOI: 10.1109/75.769535

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摘要: A photomixer local oscillator (LO) operating at the 630-GHz difference frequency of two laser diodes was successfully demonstrated with a heterodyne detector based on niobium superconducting tunnel junction. The low-temperature-grown GaAs generated 0.20 /spl mu/W in input spatial mode receiver. Using LO, double-sideband noise temperature receiver 331 K-in good agreement 323 K obtained when multiplied Gunn generating 0.25 substituted for photomixer.

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