Revue de Physique Appliquée
Sensitivity of Josephson-effect millimeter-wave radiometer
Hiroshi Ohta, M. J. Feldman, P. T. Parrish, R. Y. Chiao
Abstract
Résumé. 2014 On calcule la température de bruit et la température minimum détectable d’une jonction Josephson soumise à un rayonnement millimétrique en utilisant l’équation de Fokker-Planck. La température de bruit obtenue peut être très voisine de la température ambiante. Un récepteur pour radiotélescope à très large bande utilisant une jonction Josephson peut avoir une température minimum détectable inférieure à celle d’un maser à ondes progressives. Abstract. 2014 The noise temperature and the minimum detectable temperature of a Josephson junction in video detection of microwave and millimeter-wave radiation has been calculated. We use the well-known method based on a Fokker-Planck equation. The noise temperature can be very close to ambient temperature. Because its predetection bandwidth is very wide, a Josephson-effect radio telescope receiver can have a minimum detectable temperature better than that of a traveling-wave maser. REVUE DE PHYSIQUE APPLIQUÉE TOME 9, JANVIER 1974, PAGE We apply monochromatic radiation to a Josephson junction to determine the frequency dependence of the response. We use a phenomenological model for a Josephson junction, with signal radiation and current noise, described by the equations: These are standard symbols and are given in reference [1]. R is the parallel combination of the junction resistance and the source resistance. The noise current has a white spectum A very important assumption is that the capacitance is small We treat the radiation as a perturbation. The solu-tion of the unperturbed equation without radiation or noise is the voltage-current curve