10.6 μm heterodyne receiver based on a superconducting hot-electron bolometer mixer and a quantum cascade laser

10.6 μm heterodyne receiver based on a superconducting hot-electron bolometer mixer and a quantum cascade laser

We report on the development of a heterodyne receiver at mid-infrared wavelength for high-resolution spectroscopy applications. The receiver employs a superconducting NbN hot electron bolometer as a mixer and a room temperature distributed feedback quantum cascade laser operating at 10.6 μm (28.2 TH...

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Main Authors: Yuan Ren, DaiXi Zhang, KangMin Zhou, Wei Miao, Wen Zhang, ShengCai Shi, Vitaly Seleznev, Ivan Pentin, Yury Vakhtomin, Konstantin Smirnov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2019-07-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5090132
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Summary:We report on the development of a heterodyne receiver at mid-infrared wavelength for high-resolution spectroscopy applications. The receiver employs a superconducting NbN hot electron bolometer as a mixer and a room temperature distributed feedback quantum cascade laser operating at 10.6 μm (28.2 THz) as a local oscillator. The stabilization of the heterodyne receiver has been achieved using a feedback loop controlling the output power of the laser. Improved Allan variance times as well as a double sideband receiver noise temperature of 5000 K and a noise bandwidth of 2.8 GHz of the receiver system are demonstrated.
ISSN:2158-3226

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