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Gaspar Silva, Jose Rui (author), Finkel, M. (author), Laauwen, Wouter M. (author), Yates, S.J.C. (author), Mirzaei, B. (author), Vercruyssen, N. (author), Young, Abram (author), Walker, Christopher (author), Gao, J.R. (author)We have simulated and measured the beam properties of lens-antenna coupled hot electron bolometer mixers at a few supra-terahertz frequencies between 1.4 and 5.3 THz. The quasi-optical structures consist of an elliptical lens and a logarithmic spiral antenna. The model used for our simulations consists of a finite-element analysis to simulate...journal article 2023
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Gasparsilva, Jose Rui (author), Finkel, M. (author), Laauwen, Wouter (author), Westerweld, Menno (author), More, Nikhil (author), Young, Abram (author), Kulesa, Craig (author), Walker, Christopher (author), Van der Tak, Floris (author), Gao, J.R. (author)We report a high accuracy pointing technique for quasi-optical hot electron bolometer (HEB) mixers in focal-plane arrays designed to operate at 1.4, 1.9, and 4.7 THz. The high accuracy pointing is achieved by prealignment of a HEB chip to a lens, measuring the angular error of each mixer in an array assembly, and then realignment of the chip...journal article 2022
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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