Theory of distributed mixing and amplification in a superconducting quasi-particle nonlinear transmission line

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1086-1092

  Tong, Cheuk Yu Edward ^a,b   Chen, Linda ^a,b   Blundell, Raymond ^b,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed mixers; Nonlinear transmission lines; Parametric amplifier; SIS mixers; Submillimeter waves

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MIXER CIRCUITS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; SUPERCONDUCTING ELECTRIC LINES; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

LOCAL OSCILLATORS (LO); SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; SUPERCONDUCTING QUASI PARTICLE NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION LINES; SUPERCONDUCTOR INSULATOR SUPERCONDUCTOR (SIS) MIXERS;

TELECOMMUNICATION LINES;

EID: 0031191309     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.598445     Document Type: Article

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