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A 1.5 THz Hot-Electron Bolometer mixer operated by a planar diode based local oscillator

Edward Tong, Denis Meledin, D. Loudkov, R. Blundell, N. R. Erickson, Jonathan H. Kawamura, Imran Mehdi, Gregory Goltsman

2003 · 15 citations · 10 references

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Abstract

We have developed a 1.5 THz superconducting NbN Hot-Electron Bolometer mixer. It is operated by an all-solid-state Local Oscillator comprising of a cascade of 4 planar doublers following an MMIC based W-band power amplifier. The threshold available pump power is estimated to be 1 /spl mu/W.

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