A 30% bandwidth tunerless SIS mixer of quantum-limited sensitivity for herschel / HIFI band 1

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4855, Issue , 2002, Pages 402-414

  Salez, M ^a   Delorme, Y ^a   Peron I ^b   Lecomte, B ^a   Dauplay, F ^a   Boussaha, F ^a   Spatazza, J ^c   Feret A ^a   Krieg, J M ^a   Schuster, K ^b  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b IRAM   (France)

^c STATION DE RADIOASTRONOMIE DE NANÇAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CALIBRATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HETERODYNING; MIXER CIRCUITS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SATELLITES; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

HERSCHEL SPACE OBSERVATORY; HETERODYNE INSTRUMENT; SUPERCONDUCTOR-INSULATOR-SUPERCONDUCTOR MIXER;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 0038470034     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459365     Document Type: Conference Paper

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