Ozhegov RV, Gorshkov KN, Gol'tsman GN, Kinev NV, Koshelets VP. The stability of a terahertz receiver based on a superconducting integrated receiver. Supercond Sci Technol. 2011;24(3):035003.
Abstract: We present the results of stability testing of a terahertz radiometer based on a superconducting receiver with a SIS tunnel junction as the mixer and a flux-flow oscillator as the local oscillator. In the continuum mode, the receiver with a noise temperature of 95 K at 510 GHz measured over the intermediate frequency (IF) passband of 4-8 GHz offered a noise equivalent temperature difference of 10 ± 1 mK at an integration time of 1 s. We offer a method to significantly increase the integration time without the use of complex measurement equipment. The receiver observed a strong signal over a final detection bandwidth of 4 GHz and offered an Allan time of 5 s.
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Feofanov AK, Oboznov VA, Bol'Ginov VV, Lisenfeld J, Poletto S, Ryazanov VV, et al. Implementation of superconductor/ferromagnet/ superconductor. Nat Phys. 2010;6(8):593–7.
Abstract: High operation speed and low energy consumption may allow the superconducting digital single-flux-quantum circuits to outperform traditional complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor logic. The remaining major obstacle towards high element densities on-chip is a relatively large cell size necessary to hold a magnetic flux quantum Φ0. Inserting a π-type Josephson junction in the cell is equivalent to applying flux Φ0/2 and thus makes it possible to solve this problem. Moreover, using π-junctions in superconducting qubits may help to protect them from noise. Here we demonstrate the operation of three superconducting circuits-two of them are classical and one quantum-that all utilize such π-phase shifters realized using superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor sandwich technology. The classical circuits are based on single-flux-quantum cells, which are shown to be scalable and compatible with conventional niobium-based superconducting electronics. The quantum circuit is a π-biased phase qubit, for which we observe coherent Rabi oscillations. We find no degradation of the measured coherence time compared to that of a reference qubit without a π-junction.
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Koshelets VP, Khudchenko AV. Analysis of spectral characteristics of a superconducting integrated receiver. J. Communications Technol. Electron.. 2006;51(5):596–603.
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Torgashin MY, Koshelets VP, Dmitriev PN, Ermakov AB, Filippenko LV, Yagoubov PA. Superconducting integrated receivers based on Nb-AlN-NbN circuits. IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond.. 2007;17(2):379–82.
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Shitov SV, Levitchev M, Veretennikov AV, Koshelets VP, Prokopenko GV, Filippenko LV, et al. Superconducting integrated receiver as 400-600 GHz tester for coolable devices. IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond.. 2001;11(1):832–5.
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