Terahertz heterodyne receiver based on a quantum cascade laser and a superconducting bolometer

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Gao, J R ^a,b   Hovenier, J N ^a   Yang, Z Q ^b   Baselmans, J J A ^b   Baryshev, A ^b   Hajenius, M ^a   Klapwijk, T M ^a   Adam, A J L ^a   Klaassen, T O ^a   Williams, B S ^c   Kumar, S ^c   Hu, Q ^c   Reno, J L ^d  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c USA   (United States)

^d SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETERODYNE RECEIVERS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SIDEBAND; SUPERCONDUCTING BOLOMETERS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BOLOMETERS; ELECTRONS; HETERODYNING; LASER PULSES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); QUANTUM THEORY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 21244497091     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1949724     Document Type: Article

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