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Lee, J. - H., Kim, D. - W., Wu, Y. - H., Yu, C. - J., Lee, S. - D., & Wu, S. - T. (2005). High-speed infrared phase modulators using short helical pitch ferroelectric liquid crystals. Opt. Express, 13(20), 7732.
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Huebers, H. - W., Pavlov, S., Semenov, A., Köhler, R., Mahler, L., Tredicucci, A., et al. (2005). Terahertz quantum cascade laser as local oscillator in a heterodyne receiver. Optics Express, 13(15), 5890–5896.
Abstract: Terahertz quantum cascade lasers have been investigated with respect to their performance as a local oscillator in a heterodyne receiver. The beam profile has been measured and transformed in to a close to Gaussian profile resulting in a good matching between the field patterns of the quantum cascade laser and the antenna of a superconducting hot electron bolometric mixer. Noise temperature measurements with the hot electron bolometer and a 2.5 THz quantum cascade laser yielded the same result as with a gas laser as local oscillator.
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Gol'tsman, G. N., Korneev, A., Rubtsova, I., Milostnaya, I., Chulkova, G., Minaeva, O., et al. (2005). Ultrafast superconducting single-photon detectors for near-infrared-wavelength quantum communications. Phys. Stat. Sol. (C), 2(5), 1480–1488.
Abstract: We present our progress on the research and development of NbN superconducting single‐photon detectors (SSPD's) for ultrafast counting of near‐infrared photons for secure quantum communications. Our SSPD's operate in the quantum detection mode based on the photon‐induced hotspot formation and subsequent development of a transient resistive barrier across an ultrathin and submicron‐width superconducting stripe. The devices are fabricated from 4‐nm‐thick NbN films and kept in the 4.2‐ to 2‐K temperature range. The detector experimental quantum efficiency in the photon‐counting mode reaches above 40% for the visible light and up to 30% in the 1.3‐ to 1.55‐µm wavelength range with dark counts below 0.01 per second. The experimental real‐time counting rate is above 2 GHz and is limited by our readout electronics. The SSPD's timing jitter is below 18 ps, and the best‐measured value of the noise‐equivalent power (NEP) is 5 × 10–21 W/Hz1/2 at 1.3 µm. In terms of quantum efficiency, timing jitter, and maximum counting rate, our NbN SSPD's significantly outperform semiconductor avalanche photodiodes and photomultipliers in the 1.3‐ to 1.55‐µm range.
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Mygind, J., Samuelsen, M. R., Koshelets, V. P., & Sobolev, A. S. (2005). Simple theory for the spectral. linewidth of the mm-wave Josephson flux flow oscillator. In Pi-shift Workshop “Physics of superconducting phase-shift devices” (p. 22). Ischia, Italy.
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Koshelets, V. P., Dmitriev, P. N., Ermakov, A. B., Filippenko, L. V., Sobolev, A. S., Torgashin, M. Y., et al. (2005). Superconducting flux-flow oscillators for THz integrated receiver. In Presented at the second Franco-Russian Seminar on Nanotechnologies. Lille, France.
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Hoogeveen, R. W. M., Yagoubov, P. A., de Lange, A., Selig, A. M., Koshelets, V. P., Ellison B. N., et al. (2005). Superconducting integrated receiver development for TELIS. In Proc. 12th International Symposium on Remote Sensing. Bruges, Belgium.
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Stellari, F., & Song, P. (2005). Testing of ultra low voltage CMOS microprocessors using the superconducting single-photon detector (SSPD). In Proc. 12th IPFA (2). IEEE.
Abstract: In F. Stellari and P. Song (2004) the authors have shown a comparison among different detectors used for diagnosing integrated circuits (ICs) by means of the PICA method. In their experiments they used two versions of the SSPD detector (p-SSPD is a prototype version, while c-SSPD is the first commercially available generation of the detector as presented in W. K. Lo et al. (2002), as well as the imaging detector (S-25 photo-multiplier tube (PMT) as discussed in W. G. McMullan (1987)) used in the conventional PICA technique. A microprocessor chip fabricated in a 0.13 μm 1.2 V technology is used to show that c-SSPD provides a significant reduction in acquisition time for the collection of optical waveforms from chips running at very low. In this paper, the authors summarize the main results.
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Cherednichenko, S., Kollberg, E., Angelov, I., Drakinskiy, V., Berg, T., & Merkel, H. (2005). Effect of the direct detection effect on the HEB receiver sensitivity calibration. In Proc. 16th Int. Symp. Space Terahertz Technol. (pp. 235–239). Göteborg, Sweden.
Abstract: We analyze the scale of the HEB receiver sensitivity calibration error caused by the so called “direct detection effect”. The effect comes from changing of the HEB parameters when whey face the calibration loads of different temperatures. We found that for HIFI Band 6 mixers (Herschel Space Observatory) the noise temperature error is of the order of 8% for 300K/77K loads (lab receiver) and 2.5% for 100K/10K loads (in HIFI). Using different approach we also predict that with an isolator between the mixer and the low noise amplifiers the error can be much smaller.
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Karpov, A., Miller, D., Stern, J. A., Bumble, B., LeDuc, H. G., & Zmuidzinas, J. (2005). Low noise NbTiN 1.25 THz SIS mixer for Herschel Space Observatory. In Proc. 16th Int. Symp. Space Terahertz Technol. (450). Göteborg, Sweden.
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Marrone, D. P., Raymond Blundell, Edward Tong, Paine, S. N., Denis Loudkov, Jonathan Kawamura, et al. (2005). Observations in the 1.3 and 1.5 THz atmospheric windows with the Receiver Lab Telescope. In Proc. 16th Int. Symp. Space Terahertz Technol. (pp. 64–67). Göteborg, Sweden.
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