Kawamura J, Blundell R, Tong C-YE, Papa DC, Hunter TR, Gol'tsman G, et al. First light with an 800 GHz phonon-cooled HEB mixer receiver. In: Proc. 9th Int. Symp. Space Terahertz Technol. Pasadena, California, USA; 1998. p. 35–43.
Abstract: Phonon-cooled superconductive hot-electron bolometric (HEB) mixers are incorporated in a waveguide receiver designed to operate near 800 Gliz. The mixer elements are thin-film nio- bium nitride microbridges with dimensions of 4 nm thickness, 0.2 to 0.3 p.m in length and 2 jun in width. At 780 GHz the best receiver noise temperature is 840 K (DSB). The mixer IF bandwidth is 2.0 GHz, the absorbed LO power is —0.1 1.1W. A fixed-tuned version of the re- ceiver was installed at the Submillimeter Telescope Observatory on Mt. Graham, Arizona, to conduct astronomical observations. These observations represent the first time that a receiver incorporating any superconducting HEB mixer has been used to detect a spectral line of celes- tial origin.
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Kawamura J, Blundell R, Tong C-YE, Papa DC, Hunter TR, Paine St. N, et al. Superconductive hot-electron bolometer mixer receiver for 800 GHz operation. Vol 48.; 2000.
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Tong C-YE, Kawamura J, Todd RH, Papa DC, Blundell R, Smith M, et al. Successful operation of a 1 THz NbN hot-electron bolometer receiver. In: Proc. 11th Int. Symp. Space Terahertz Technol.; 2000. p. 49–59.
Abstract: A phonon-cooled NbN superconductive hot-electron bolometer receiver covering the frequency range 0.8-1.04 THz has successfully been used for astronomical observation at the Sub-Millimeter Telescope Observatory on Mount Graham, Arizona. This waveguide heterodyne receiver is a modified version of our fixed-tuned 800 GHz HEB receiver to allow for operation beyond 1 THz. The measured noise temperature of this receiver is about 1250 K at 0.81 THz, 560 K at 0.84 THz, and 1600 K at 1.035 THz. It has a 1 GHz wide IF bandwidth, centered at 1.8 GHz. This receiver has recently been used to detect the CO (9-8) molecular line emission at 1.037 THz in the Orion nebula. This is the first time a ground-based heterodyne receiver has been used to detect a celestial source above 1 THz.
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Hübers H-W, Semenov A, Schubert J, Gol'tsman G, Voronov B, Gershenzon E. Performance of the phonon-cooled hot-electron bolometric mixer between 0.7 THz and 5.2 THz. In: Proc. 8-th Int. Conf. on Terahertz Electronics.; 2000. p. 117–9.
Abstract: We report on the phonon cooled NbN hot electron bolometer as mixer in the terahertz frequency range. Its hybrid antenna consists of a hyperhemispheric silicon lens and a logarithmic-spiral feed antenna. Noise temperatures have been measured between 0.7 THz and 5.2 THz. A quarter wavelength layer of Parylene works as antireflection coating for the silicon lens and reduces the noise temperature by about 30. It was found that the antenna pattern at 2.5 THz is determined by the feed antenna and not by the diameter of the lens.
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Gol'tsman G, Semenov A, Smirnov K, Voronov B. Background limited quantum superconducting detector for submillimeter wavelengths. In: Proc. 12th Int. Symp. Space Terahertz Technol.; 2001. p. 469–75.
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