LOW-NOISE COMPLETELY QUASI-OPTICAL SIS RECEIVER FOR RADIOASTRONOMY AT 115 GHZ

被引:6
作者
BELITSKY, VY
TARASOV, MA
KOVTONJUK, SA
FILIPPENKO, LV
KAPLUNENKO, OV
机构
[1] Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, Russta Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 103907
来源
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFRARED AND MILLIMETER WAVES | 1992年 / 13卷 / 04期
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10.1007/BF01010700
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Completely quasioptical heterodyne SIS receiver for radioastronomical applications at 115 GHz was designed and tested. Gaussian beam two lens input guide system and open structure SIS mixer with immersion lens were used. Integrated quasioptical structure consists of planar equiangular spiral antenna and superconductor - insulator - superconductor (SIS) tunnel junction as a mixing element connected to the antenna via microstrip impedance transformer. The best SIS mixer noise temperature at hot input and for heterodyne frequency 109.8 GHz with IF central frequency 1.4 GHz (DSB) was 28 +/- 7 K at the first quasiparticle step and 8 +/- 6 K at the second step.
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页码:389 / 396
页数:8
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