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Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

The Mixing Properties of the Cartridge Type Josephson Junction Point Contact Device at 70 GHz

Yoshikazu Hayashi, Tatsuji Kato, Toshiaki Takano, Masahiro Hirayama

Published Nov 1, 1978• 2 citations
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DOI
10.1143/jjap.17.2077

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Signals near 1 GHz were multiplied in frequency by up to 825 times and mixed with the hydrogen cyanide laser frequency at 891 GHz in point-contact Josephson junctions. The 1 GHz signals were generated by direct multiplication from a 120 MHz quartz-crystal oscillator, and no microwave transfer oscillator was needed. The maximum IF output powers obtained in these and other harmonic mixing experiments (using the same laser) were found to agree quite well with a simple theory which predicts a limit proportional to the square of the frequency being multiplied in the Josephson junction. This provides a criterion for determining the lowest frequency at which to begin multiplication in a Josephson device.
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The Josephson frequency conversion in the millimeter and submillimeter wave region is studied with superconducting Nb-Nb point contact junctions at 4.2 K, using the contact both as the local oscillator and the mixer with intermediate frequencies of 0.1 and 9.2 GHz. Frequency conversion signals are only detected in the latter case with a microwave receiver at 9.2 GHz in a range of Josephson frequencies between 145 and 1 600 GHz. The experiments with intermediate frequency fi of 0.1 GHz indicate for this small value of f i that the observed signals are not related to frequency conversion but noise effects. An analysis of the frequency conversion mechanism in a Josephson junction operated as an oscillator-mixer is proposed which includes the noise effects and also the feedback effects induced in a junction driven by a constant current source. We have then investigated the noise properties up to 450 GHz of superconducting point-contacts using the junction as an oscillator-mixer where the Josephson current is mixed with harmonics of an externally applied signal. The emitted intermediate frequency is detected at 9.2 GHz and its linewidth is measured. In the very high frequency range the dc quasiparticle current dominates in a Josephson weak-link and we compare the corresponding theoretical linewidth calculated by Scalapino with our experimental results.