THz frequency receiver instrumentation for Herschel's Heterodyne Instrument for Far Infrared (HIFI)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4850, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 650-661

  Pearson, J C ^a   Mehdi, I ^a   Schlecht, E ^a   Maiwald, F ^a   Maestrini, A ^a   Gill, J ^a   Martin, S ^a   Pukala, D ^a   Ward, J ^a   Kawamura, J ^a   McGrath, W R ^a   Hatch, W A ^a   Harding, D ^a   Leduc, H G ^a   Stern, J A ^a   Bumble, B ^a   Samoska, L ^a   Gaier, T ^a   Ferber, R ^a   Miller, D ^b   Karpov, A ^b   Zmuidzinas, J ^b   Phillips, T ^b   Erickson, N ^c   Swift, J ^e   Chung, Y H ^e   Lai, R ^e   Wang, H ^d   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Heterodyne; LNA; Local Oscillator; Mixer; MMIC; Multiplier; Receiver; Submillimeter; THz

Indexed keywords

HETERODYNING; HIGH FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; MIXER CIRCUITS; OBSERVATORIES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

LOCAL OSCILLATORS;

OPTICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0037725271     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461757     Document Type: Conference Paper

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