Hot electron bolometer heterodyne receiver with a 4.7-THz quantum cascade laser as a local oscillator

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Kloosterman, J. L.; Hayton, D. J.; Ren, Y.; Hovenier, J. N.; Gao, J. R.; ... Show more
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Abstract
We report on a heterodyne receiver designed to observe the astrophysically important neutral atomic oxygen [OI] line at 4.7448 THz. The local oscillator is a third-order distributed feedback quantum cascade laser operating in continuous wave mode at 4.741 THz. A quasi-optical, superconducting NbN hot electron bolometer is used as the mixer. We recorded a double sideband receiver noise temperature ( T[DSB over rec] ) of 815 K, which is ~ 7 times the quantum noise limit ( [hν over 2kB] ) and an Allan variance time of 15 s at an effective noise fluctuation bandwidth of 18 MHz. Heterodyne performance was confirmed by measuring a methanol line spectrum.
Date issued
2013-01
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86379
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Journal
Applied Physics Letters
Publisher
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Citation
Kloosterman, J. L., D. J. Hayton, Y. Ren, T. Y. Kao, J. N. Hovenier, J. R. Gao, T. M. Klapwijk, Q. Hu, C. K. Walker, and J. L. Reno. “Hot Electron Bolometer Heterodyne Receiver with a 4.7-THz Quantum Cascade Laser as a Local Oscillator.” Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, no. 1 (2013): 011123. © 2013 American Institute of Physics
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00036951
1077-3118
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