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Baselmans, J. J. A., Baryshev, A., Reker, S. F., Hajenius, M., Gao, J. R., Klapwijk, T. M., et al. (2005). Direct detection effect in small volume hot electron bolometer mixers. Appl. Phys. Lett., 86(16), 163503 (1 to 3).
Abstract: We measure the direct detection effect in a small volume (0.15μm×1μm×3.5nm)(0.15μm×1μm×3.5nm) quasioptical NbN phonon cooled hot electronbolometermixer at 1.6THz1.6THz. We find that the small signal sensitivity of the receiver is underestimated by 35% due to the direct detection effect and that the optimal operating point is shifted to higher bias voltages when using calibration loads of 300K300K and 77K77K. Using a 200GHz200GHzbandpass filter at 4.2K4.2K the direct detection effect virtually disappears. This has important implications for the calibration procedure of these receivers in real telescope systems.
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de Graauw, T., Caux, E., Guesten, R., Helmich, F., Pearson, J., Phillips, T. G., et al. (2005). The Herschel-heterodyne instrument for the far-infrared (HIFI). In Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society (1219). Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 37.
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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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