Nonlinear behavior of electronic components characterized with precision multitones from a josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizer

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 715-718

  Toonen, Ryan C ^a   Benz, Samuel P ^b  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Harmonic distortion; Intermodulation distortion; Josephson arrays; Signal generators

Indexed keywords

CENTER FREQUENCY; ELECTRICAL STANDARDS; ELECTRONIC COMPONENT; JOSEPHSON ARBITRARY WAVEFORM SYNTHESIZERS; JOSEPHSON ARRAYS; LINEAR AMPLIFIERS; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; METROLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; MICROWAVE COMPONENTS; MULTITONE; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR; SINGLE FREQUENCY; SPECTRAL PURITY; TEST SIGNAL; VOLTAGE PULSE; WAVE FORMS;

DISTORTION (WAVES); ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HARMONIC DISTORTION; INTERMODULATION MEASUREMENT; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; MICROWAVES; SIGNAL GENERATORS;

INTERMODULATION DISTORTION;

EID: 68649093692     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2009.2019051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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