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Kasparek, W., Fernandez, A., Hollmann, F., & Wacker, R. (2001). Measurements of ohmic losses of metallic reflectors at 140 GHz using a 3-mirror resonator technique. Int. J. Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 22(11), 1695–1707.
Abstract: The reflectivity of metallic mirrors in the millimeter wave region does not only depend on the material, but also on the structure and roughness of the surface. We have performed measurements of the reflectivity of various plane and grooved metallic and graphite samples at 140 GHz. The technique is based on the comparison of the quality factor of a 2-mirror reference resonator with the quality factor of a 3-mirror resonator which has identical dimensions and includes the mirror to be tested. After a brief presentation of the theory, the set-up is described and the reflection loss for various aluminium and copper mirrors as well as vacuum compatible materials for applications in thermonuclear fusion experiments are presented and discussed.
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Van Rudd, J., Johnson, J. L., & Mittleman, D. M. (2001). Cross-polarized angular emission patterns from lens-coupled terahertz antennas. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 18(10), 1524.
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Somani, S., Kasapi, S., Wilsher, K., Lo, W., Sobolewski, R., & Gol’tsman, G. (2001). New photon detector for device analysis: Superconducting single-photon detector based on a hot electron effect. J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, 19(6), 2766–2769.
Abstract: A novel superconducting single-photon detector (SSPD), intrinsically capable of high quantum efficiency (up to 20%) over a wide spectral range (ultraviolet to infrared), with low dark counts (<1 cps), and fast (<40 ps) timing resolution, is described. This SSPD has been used to perform timing measurements on complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor integrated circuits (ICs) by detecting the infrared light emission from switching transistors. Measurements performed from the backside of a 0.13 μm geometry flip–chip IC are presented. Other potential applications for this detector are in telecommunications, quantum cryptography, biofluorescence, and chemical kinetics.
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Gol’tsman, G. N., & Smirnov, K. V. (2001). Electron-phonon interaction in a two-dimensional electron gas of semiconductor heterostructures at low temperatures. Jetp Lett., 74(9), 474–479.
Abstract: Theoretical and experimental works devoted to studying electron-phonon interaction in the two-dimensional electron gas of semiconductor heterostructures at low temperatures in the case of strong heating in an electric field under quasi-equilibrium conditions and in a quantizing magnetic field perpendicular to the 2D layer are considered.
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Mel’nikov, A. P., Gurvich, Y. A., Shestakov, L. N., & Gershenzon, E. M. (2001). Magnetic field effects on the nonohmic impurity conduction of uncompensated crystalline silicon. Jetp Lett., 73(1), 44–47.
Abstract: The impurity conduction of a series of crystalline silicon samples with the concentration of major impurity N ≈ 3 × 1016 cm−3 and with a varied, but very small, compensation K was measured as a function of the electric field E in various magnetic fields H-σ(H, E). It was found that, at K < 10−3 and in moderate E, where these samples are characterized by a negative nonohmicity (dσ(0, E)/dE < 0), the ratio σ(H, E)/σ(0, E) > 1 (negative magnetoresistance). With increasing E, these inequalities are simultaneously reversed (positive nonohmicity and positive magnetoresistance). It is suggested that both negative and positive nonohmicities are due to electron transitions in electric fields from impurity ground states to states in the Mott-Hubbard gap.
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Codreanu, I., & Boreman, G. D. (2001). Infrared microstrip dipole antennas. Microw Opt Technol Lett, 29(6), 381–383.
Abstract: Abstract 10.1002/mop.1184.abs We report on the successful use of niobium microbolometers coupled to microstrip dipole antennas for the detection of midinfrared radiation. Measurements of the detector response versus antenna length performed at the 10.6 μm wavelength allowed us to identify the first three current-wave resonances along the antenna arms. The detector response was also measured as a function of the radiation wavelength in the 911 μm spectral domain. Excellent agreement between the experimental results and finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) predictions was obtained.
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Verevkin, A., Williams, C., Gol’tsman, G. N., Sobolewski, R., & Gilbert, G. (2001). Single-photon superconducting detectors for practical high-speed quantum cryptography. Optical Society of America.
Abstract: We have developed an ultrafast superconducting single-photon detector with negligible dark counting rate. The detector is based on an ultrathin, submicron-wide NbN meander-type stripe and can detect individual photons in the visible to near-infrared wavelength range at a rate of at least 10 Gb/s. The above counting rate allows us to implement the NbN device to unconditionally secret quantum key distRochester, New Yorkribution in a practical, high-speed system using real-time Vernam enciphering.
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Semenov, A., Goltsman, G., & Korneev, A. (2001). Quantum detection by current carrying superconducting film. Phys. C: Supercond., 351(4), 349–356.
Abstract: We describe a novel quantum detection mechanism in the superconducting film carrying supercurrent. The mechanism incorporates growing normal domain and breaking of superconductivity by the bias current. A single photon absorbed in the film creates transient normal spot that causes redistribution of the current and, consequently, increase of the current density in superconducting areas. When the current density exceeds the critical value, the film switches into resistive state and generates the voltage pulse. Analysis shows that a submicron-wide film of conventional low temperature superconductor operated in liquid helium may detect single far-infrared photon. The amplitude and duration of the voltage pulse are in the millivolt and picosecond range, respectively. The quantitative model is presented that allows simulation of the detector utilizing this detection mechanism.
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Antipov, S. V., Svechnikov, S. I., Smirnov, K. V., Vakhtomin, Y. B., Finkel, M. I., Goltsman, G. N., et al. (2001). Noise temperature of quasioptical NbN hot electron bolometer mixers at 900 GHz. Physics of Vibrations, 9(4), 242–245.
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Svechnikov, S. I., Antipov, S. V., Vakhtomin, Y. B., Goltsman, G. N., Gershenzon, E. M., Cherednichenko, S. I., et al. (2001). Conversion and noise bandwidths of terahertz NbN hot-electron bolometer mixers. Physics of Vibrations, 9(3), 205–210.
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