@InProceedings{Kawamura_etal1998,
author="Kawamura, Jonathan
and Blundell, Raymond
and Tong, C-Y Edward
and Papa, D. Cosmo
and Hunter, Todd R.
and Gol{\textquoteright}tsman, Gregory
and Cherednichenko, Sergei
and Voronov, Boris
and Gershenzon, Eugene",
title="First light with an 800 GHz phonon-cooled HEB mixer receiver",
booktitle="Proc. 9$^{th}$ Int. Symp. Space Terahertz Technol.",
year="1998",
address="Pasadena, California, USA",
pages="35--43",
optkeywords="HEB; mixer; LO power; local oscillator power; saturation effect; dynamic range",
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.",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://db.rplab.ru/refbase/show.php?record=572), last updated on Tue, 25 May 2021 18:29:06 -0500",
opturl="https://www.nrao.edu/meetings/isstt/1998.shtml"
}