Coupled Josephson Local Oscillator And Detector Experiments In The Terahertz Regime

R. P. Robertazzi; H. D. Hallen; R. A. Buhrman

doi:10.1117/12.943978

18 May 1988 Coupled Josephson Local Oscillator And Detector Experiments In The Terahertz Regime

R. P. Robertazzi, H. D. Hallen, R. A. Buhrman

Proceedings Volume 0879, Sensing, Discrimination, and Signal Processing and Superconducting Materials and Intrumentation; (1988) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.943978
Event: 1988 Los Angeles Symposium: O-E/LASE '88, 1988, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

Recent coupled Josephson junction experiments in our laboratory have demonstrated that high critical current density tunnel junctions can serve as effective local oscillators at frequencies up to and in excess of the gap sum frequency of the junction, i.e. well above 1 Terahertz for a niobium or niobium compound tunnel junction. While the details of the behavior of such a THz. oscillator were found not to be in accord with the predictions of the accepted theory of the A.C. Josephson effect in the gap region significant radiation could be capacitively coupled from the oscillator junction to an adjacent junction, sufficient for SIS mixer experiments at Terahertz frequencies. Research efforts are now under way to further extend and ex-pand these studies. A high critical current density all NbN tunnel junction system is now under development for Terahertz applications and a new set of coupled Josephson oscillator - SIS detector experiments is being initiated using NbN tunnel junc-tions. In this paper we will review the original coupled junction high frequency experiments and report on the recent progress of the current NbN tunnel junction experiments.

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R. P. Robertazzi, H. D. Hallen, and R. A. Buhrman "Coupled Josephson Local Oscillator And Detector Experiments In The Terahertz Regime", Proc. SPIE 0879, Sensing, Discrimination, and Signal Processing and Superconducting Materials and Intrumentation, (18 May 1988); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.943978

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