A three photon noise SIS heterodyne receiver at submillimeter wavelength

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 9, Issue 2 PART 3, 1999, Pages 4456-4459

  Karpov, Alexandre ^a   Blondel, Jacques ^a   Voss, Martin ^a   Heinz Gundlach, Karl ^a  

^a IRAM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); PHOTONS; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIO TELESCOPES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

HETERODYNE RECEIVER; PHOTON NOISE; SUBMILLIMETER WAVELENGTH; SUPERCONDUCTING INSULATOR SUPERCONDUCTOR;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

EID: 0032660872     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.784014     Document Type: Article

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