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Hayton, D.J. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Kooi, J.W. (author), Ren, Y. (author), Zhang, W. (author), De Lange, G. (author)
We report on a method to stabilize a hot electron bolometer (HEB) mixer at 2.5 THz. The technique utilizes feedback control of the local oscillator (LO) laser power by means of a swing-arm actuator placed in the optical beam path. We demonstrate that this technique yields a factor of 50 improvement in the spectroscopic Allan variance time which...
journal article 2012
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Zhang, W. (author), Khosropanah, P. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Bansal, T. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author), Miao, W. (author), Shi, S.C. (author)
We report the measured sensitivities of a superconducting NbN hot electron bolometer (HEB) heterodyne receiver at 5.25 THz. Terahertz (THz) radiation is quasioptically coupled to a HEB mixer with a lens and a spiral antenna. Using a measurement setup with black body calibration sources and a beam splitter in vacuo, and an antireflection coated...
journal article 2010
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Zhang, W. (author), Khosropanah, P. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Kollberg, E.L. (author), Yngvesson, K.S. (author), Bansal, T. (author), Barends, R. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author)
We have measured the noise temperature of a single, sensitive superconducting NbN hot electron bolometer (HEB) mixer in a frequency range from 1.6 to 5.3 THz, using a setup with all the key components in vacuum. By analyzing the measured receiver noise temperature using a quantum noise (QN) model for HEB mixers, we confirm the effect of QN. The...
journal article 2010
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Khosropanah, P. (author), Zhang, W. (author), Hovenier, J.N. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author), Amanti, M.I. (author), Scalari, G. (author), Faist, J. (author)
We report a heterodyne receiver using a superconducting NbN hot electron bolometer (HEB) integrated with a tight winding spiral antenna as mixer and a distributed feedback (DFB) terahertz quantum cascade laser (QCL) operating at 3.42 THz as local oscillator. The aim is to demonstrate the readiness of both devices for the detection of OH lines at...
journal article 2008
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