Документ взят из кэша поисковой машины. Адрес оригинального документа : http://www.cplire.ru/html/lab234/pubs/2003-09.pdf Дата изменения: Mon Feb 28 21:11:49 2005 Дата индексирования: Tue Oct 2 07:56:02 2012 Кодировка: Поисковые слова: m 5

ITu3

1

Superconducting Integrated Circuits for Submillimeter Heterodyne Receivers
S.V. Shitov
all N junctions with equal bias voltage via high inductive superconducting feeds [5], [6]. Such arrangement allows for increased input, Rrf(N) = Rrf(1)N, and decreased output resistance, Rd(N) = Rd(1)/N [7]. The optimum number N for desired input and output resistance, Rs and RL, we estimate as N = (RS/RL)1/2(Rd(1)/Rrf(1))1/
2

Abstract--A few aspects of integration of SIS junctions into a complete heterodyne receiver are discussed; a number of practical solutions are presented. The concept of perfect match for SIS mixers assumes proper integration of multiple junctions using series-parallel connection. Our recent progress in study of Josephson-type oscillators up to 1 THz is based on their integration with SIS mixers, dc-break filters and high-ratio impedance transformers. Fine adjustment of rf power from such integrated source is realized via controllable absorption by tunneling quasiparticles. A few variants of a quasioptical Superconducting Integrated Receiver comprising an integrated SIS mixer, FFO as a LO and optional harmonic SIS mixer in the PLL loop are demonstrated. A multi-channel concept of SQUID amplifier allows for a wide-band if chain, which accomplishes the traditional set of devices used for a heterodyne SIS receiver.

(1).

IS junctions are unique devices combining two fundamental phenomena, the superconducting pairs tunneling (Josephson effect [1]) and the quasiparticle tunneling (Giaver effect [2]). This allows for use the same type of junction (e. g. Nb-AlOx-Nb) either in a quasiparticle mode (for the quantum noise limited mixing or for the photon counting detection [3]) or in Josephson mode (for high frequency oscillators or for SQUID sensors, rf amplifiers, and digital devices [4]). This is why studies in SIS junction integration are of great importance for lightweight and low power consuming electronic applications.

S

I. INTRODUCTIO

N

To obtain good rf coupling, capacitance of the junction has to be tuned out. Such compensated two-junction cell was suggested in 1982 [8]. The prototype cell contains two SIS junctions looped by an inductor, which resonates with the junctions' capacitance. These junctions are connected in parallel at dc and if, but one can chose how to connect the rf source ­ in parallel to one of the junctions for Rs=Rrf/2 or in parallel to the inductor for Rs=2Rrf. It is easy to demonstrate that twin-SIS mixers [9]-[11] fit to this integration principle, which is tested experimentally up to N=11 at mm wavelength [12]. Practicable SIS mixers demonstrated receiver noise temperature, TRX, as low as 20 K at 100 GHz with waveguides [12], 40 K at 470 GHz [13] and 245 K at 935 GHz with integrated lens-antennas [14]. Promising results are obtained at sub-THz frequencies with a resonant SIS mixer [15], which is the asymptotic solution for a twin-SIS mixer at high frequency.

III. TEST CIR

CUITS FOR JOSEPHSON

O

SCILLATORS

II. O

PTIMIZATION OF

SIS MIXER CIR

CUIT

The most serious problems of mixing with a SIS junction are its low effective resistance at rf (Rrf<>Rn). To realize high rf impedance, an array of N series connected junctions can be used. However, series-biased array mixers suffer from unequal bias voltage due to junction inhomogeneity and from poor if coupling due to very high output resistance. It was suggested, analogous to Josephson arrays, to supply
S. V. Shitov is with the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 125009, Russia. This work was supported in parts by RFBR projects 92-02-3484, 00-02-16270, 03-02-16748; INTAS projects 94-1783, 97-1712, 01-0367; ISTC projects 1199, 2445; ESA TRP Contract No.11/653/95/NL/PB/SC, 7898/88/NL/PB/SC; AFOSR Grant No.F49620-98-1-0072; NATO Linkage Grant 921040; JSPS S-01527, STA 49919, and Danish Science Foundation.

The efficiency of dc-to-rf conversion of a shunted SIS junction is limited by the shunt resistor, which provides dc stability and, unfortunately, damping most of the oscillator power. A pure resistive shunt is difficult to realize especially at THz frequencies [6]. This is why in most experiments the large-N array oscillators are operating in a resonant mode. The flux-flow oscillator (FFO) is a long (distributed) non-shunted SIS junction with Josephson effect spatially synchronized by moving Josephson vortices [16]. Another example is a two-dimensional (2D) array oscillator of non-shunted SIS junctions above the ground plane [17]-[19]. For accurate measurement of power, tuning range and emission spectrum, we integrated oscillators with wide-band twin-SIS detectors. The detectors can be used either for power measurement or as harmonic mixers of a PLL system. Special coupling elements are developed for such circuits: wide-band high-ratio impedance transformers (250-750 GHz, 1/100), a few types of dc-blocking filters (150-850 GHz) and integrated control lines for local magnetic field (up to 30 kA/m). Using this integration approach, the non-shunted oscillators with


ITu3 dc-to-rf conversion efficiency above 10% (up to 30%) at 150 GHz are demonstrated [18]. A number of interesting experimental results are obtained: detailed spectrum of free-running and locked Nb FFO up to 700 GHz [20], frequency doubling in stacked FFOs [21], THz-band emission from NbN FFO up to 900 GHz [22] and evidence of a coherence threshold in 2D array oscillators [17]-[19]. To adjust rf power from a fix-tuned integrated oscillator, the electronically controlled absorption by quasiparticles was suggested; the SIS attenuators are developed and tested at 70 GHz and 325 GHz with integrated FFO [23]. VI. CON
CLUSION

2

The experimental results are quite encouraging and the methods developed can be recommended as the guidelines for superconducting integration technology at rf. The research continues now towards a practicable integrated (imaging) PLL receiver for radio astronomy and monitoring of atmosphere. A
CKNOWLEDGMENT

IV. INTEG

RATION OF A

RECEIVER

Superconducting integrated receiver (SIR) is as a chip device containing sensitive (SIS) mixer coupled with its signal port to a waveguide or to a quasioptical antenna and with its LO port - to an integrated Josephson oscillator (FFO). The signal loss is unavoidable, if the simple T-junction power combiner is used. For the balanced scheme, the signal can be transferred from antenna to the mixing element without loss. The first waveguide SIR at 140 GHz [24] was built as quartz chip 5.3 mm x 0.5 mm x 0.15 mm using the simple scheme and the prototype two-junction cell SIS mixer [8]. The noise temperature less than 85 K was demonstrated. For the range 400-700 GHz the layout is changed: the quasioptical (QO) SIR is built around a double-dipole lens-antenna SIS mixer with an elliptical silicon lens as the only optical element. Balanced and single junction versions of QO SIR at 500 GHz demonstrated TRX=90 K and 140 K respectively [25]. An imaging receiver is developed and tested with nine pixels each one being an independent and replaceable QO SIR; the same pixel element is implemented in a compact probe-type laboratory sub-mm receiver [26]. A chip spectrometer at 330 GHz is developed as a combination of the QO SIR and PLL FFO circuits; the integrated LO is feeding now two mixers [27]. The frequency resolution as good as 10 kHz is measured along with fine detection of SO2 gas absorption spectrum at 326867 MHz. V. DC SQUID BASED IF A

Author would like to thank for their collaborative efforts V. P. Koshelets, A. N. Vystavkin, S. A. Kovtonyuk, An. B. Ermakov, G. V. Prokopenko, L. V. Filippenko, I. L. Lapitskaya, P. N. Dmitriev; Th. De Graauw, P. Wesselius, W. Luinge, H. van de Stadt, H. Golstein, A. Baryshev, G. de Lange, B.D. Jackson, P. Lehikoinen; E. Kollberg, C.-O. Lindstrom, N. D. Whyborn; T. Klapwijk, G.-R. Gao, N. N. Iosad; A. Braginsky, A. Ustinov, H. Kohlstedt; C. Lobb, P. Barbara, B. Vasilic; J. Mygind, G. Fisher; A. Shoji, S. Kohjiro, M. Maezawa, and Z. Wang. REFER
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] ENCES

MPLIFIER

[17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29]

It was demonstrated that dc SQUID can be used as an rf amplifier (SQA) with noise temperature at the level of 100 mK [28], but its bandwidth (BW) is hardly exceeding 10%. To attain wide-band performance, a concept of multi-channel SQA is developed [29]. We demonstrated that BW up to 2 GHz can be achieved for the 4-channel SQA. The channel design is based on the experimental SQA, which is developed via extensive scale modeling and tested in the frequency range 3.0-4.6 GHz demonstrating single-stage gain 12.0±1.0 dB, 3-dB bandwidth of 500 MHz and noise temperature 1.0±0.25 K. The input saturation power in terms of the noise temperature normalized to 1 GHz input bandwidth is measured as 55 K*GHz for 1 dB gain compression point that fits to low-signal applications.

Josephson B D 1962 Phys. Lett. 1 251-253. Giaver I I960 Phys. Rev. Lett. 5 147-148. Tucker J R, Feldman M J 1985 Rev. Mod. Phys. 4 1055-1113. Likharev K K 1986 Dynamics of Josephson Junctions and Circuits (New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publisher). Wan K-L, Jain A K, Lukens J E 1989 IEEE Trans. Magn. 25 1076-1079. Kawakami A, Wang Z 1998 IEICE Trans. Electron. E81-C 1595-1600. Ermakov An B, Koshelets V P, Kovtonyuk S A, Shitov S V 1991 IEEE Trans. Magn. MAG-27 2642-2645. Vystavkin A N, Gubankov V N, Konstantinyan K I, Koshelets V P, and Obukhov Yu V 1982 Physica 109 & 110 B 2064-2066. Noguchi T, Sunada K, Inatani J 1992 Proc. 39th Spring Meeting Japanese Society Appl. Physics, Tokyo, Japan, 76. Belitsky V Yu et al. 1993 Proc. 4 Int. Symp. Space Terahertz Technology, Los Angeles, UCLA, USA, 538. Zmuidzinas J, LeDuc H G, Stern J A, Cypher S R 1994 IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech. 42 698-706. Shitov S V et al. 1991 Supercond. Sci. Technol. 4 406-408. Baryshev A, Luinge W, Koshelets V, Shitov S, Klapwijk T, unpublished. Shitov S V et al. 2002 Physica C 372-376 374-377. Uzawa Y, Wang Z, Kawakami A, Miki S 2001 in Proc. 12 Int. Symp. Space Terahertz Technol., San Diego, USA, 352-362. Parmentier R D 1978 Fluxons in long Josephson junctions in Soliton in action. Ed. K.Lonngren and A.C. Scott (New-York: Academic) 173-199. Barbara P, Cawthorne A W, Shitov S V, Lobb C J 1999 Phys. Rev. Lett. 82 1963. Vasilic B, Barbara P, Shitov S V, Lobb C J 2001 IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 11 1188-1190. Vasilic B, Shitov S V, Lobb C J, Barbara P 2001 Appl. Phys. Lett. 78 1137-1139. Koshelets V P et al. 2002 Physica C 367 249-255. Shitov S V, Ustinov A V, Iosad N N, Kohlstedt H J 1996 Appl. Phys. 80 7134-7137. Kohjiro S et al. 2002 in Pr. 13-th Int. Symp. Space Terahertz Technol. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Koshelets V P et al. 1993 Appl. Phys. Lett. 63 3218-3220. Koshelets V P, Shchukin A V, Shitov S V, and Filippenko L V 1993 IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 3 2524-2527. Shitov S V et al. 1999 IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 9 3773-3776. Shitov S V et al. 2001 IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 11 832-835. Shitov S V et al. 2000 IOP Conf. Ser. 167-2 647-650. Muck M, Kycia J B, Clarke J 2001 Appl. Phys. Lett. 78 967-969 Prokopenko G V, Shitov S V, Mygind J 2002 Physica C 372-376 229-232.