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Characterization of the Emission from 2D Array Josephson Oscillators

P.A.A. Booi, Samuel P. Benz

Published May 1, 1994• 1 citation
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Abstract

We present experimental results on the emission from phase-locked twodimensional arrays of Josephson junctions. We have coupled the emission from 10 x 10 arrays to a room-temperature mixer throu h a tin-line antenna and WR-12 waveguide. A single voltagetunable peak was detected up to 230 GHz. A stripline resonance in the antenna reduced the array's dynamic resistance and thereby the emission linewidth to as low as 10 kHz. We extract an effective noise temperature of 14 K from the linewidth data. When the array's emission was coupled to an on-chip detector junction through a dc blocking capacitor, we detected voltagetunable emission from 75 GHz up to 300 GHz, and in some circuits emission above 400 GHz. The coherent power spectrum depends primarily on internal resonances.

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