Synthesis of sinusoidal signals with a Josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizer

Superconductor Science and Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 413-417

  Van Den Brom, Helko E ^a   Houtzager, Ernest ^a   Chevtchenko, Oleg ^a   Wende, Gerd ^b   Schubert, Marco ^b   May, Torsten ^b   Meyer, Hans Georg ^b   Kieler, Oliver ^c   Kohlmann, Johannes ^c  

^a NMi Van Swinden Laboratorium   (Netherlands)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

JOSEPHSON ARBITRARY WAVEFORM SYNTHESIZER (JAWS); PATTERN GENERATORS; SINUSOIDAL SIGNALS; VOLTAGE SIGNALS;

FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS;

EID: 34250199771     PISSN: 09532048     EISSN: 13616668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-2048/20/5/001     Document Type: Article

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