TY - JOUR AU - Zorin, M. AU - Gol'tsman, G. N. AU - Karasik, B. S. AU - Elantev, A. I. AU - Gershenzon, E. M. AU - Lindgren, M. AU - Danerud, M. AU - Winkler, D. PY - 1995 DA - 1995// TI - Optical mixing in thin YBa[sub:2]Cu[sub:3]O[sub:7-x] films T2 - IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. JO - IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. SP - 2431 EP - 2434 VL - 5 IS - 2 KW - YBCO HTS HEB mixers AB - High quality, j/sub c/ (77 K)>10/sup 6/ A/cm/sup 2/, epitaxial YBa[sub:2]Cu[sub:3]O[sub:7-x] films of 50 nm thickness were patterned into ten parallel 1 /spl mu/m wide strips. The film structure was coupled to a single-mode fiber. Mixer response was obtained at 0.78 /spl mu/m using laser frequency modulation and an optical delay line. Using two semiconductor lasers at 1.55 /spl mu/m wavelength the beating signal was used to measure the photoresponse up to 18 GHz. Nonequilibrium photoresponse in the resistive state of the superconductor was observed. Bolometric response dominates up to 3 GHz, after which the nonequilibrium response is constant up to the frequency limit of our registration system. Using an electron heating model the influence of different thermal processes on the conversion loss has been analyzed. Ways of increasing the sensitivity are also discussed. SN - 1051-8223 UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/403082/ UR - https://doi.org/10.1109/77.403082 DO - 10.1109/77.403082 N1 - exported from refbase (https://db.rplab.ru/refbase/show.php?record=1619), last updated on Wed, 26 May 2021 14:03:21 -0500 ID - Zorin_etal1995 ER -