Measurement of the Noise Contributions to SIS Heterodyne Receivers

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 3312-3315

  Woody, David P ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ESTIMATION; HETERODYNING; INTERFEROMETERS; MILLIMETER WAVES; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

IF AMPLIFIER NOISE; OPTICAL FRONT END LOSSES; RF COUPLING EFFICIENCY; SUPERCONDUCTOR INSULATOR SUPERCONDUCTOR HETERODYNE RECEIVERS; VACUUM FLUCTUATION NOISE;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 0029322017     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: 15582515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.403300     Document Type: Article

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