300GHz超导SIS接收机系统的设计与构建

超导SIS(Superconductor-Insulator-Superconductor)混频技术是新兴的低噪声检测技术.其卓越的低噪声性能已使其成为毫米波和亚毫米波频段灵敏度最高的谱线接收设备,接收机的自动控制和稳定性有更高的要求,研制能够长期稳定工作的接收机有很重要的意义.本文主要讨论了我们自行研究设计工作在4K温度,准光学系统的毫米波超导SIS接收机的组成部件,根据我们制备的超导SIS隧道结器件的特性指标,计算设计了300GHz波段的超导接收机天线和结的集成芯片.     

超高灵敏度太赫兹超导探测技术发展

太赫兹波段占有宇宙微波背景(CMB)辐射以后宇宙空间近一半的光子能量,该波段在天文学研究中具有不可替代的作用,因此太赫兹天文学的研究,具有极其重要的科学意义。本文系统介绍了基于超高灵敏度太赫兹超导探测技术的太赫兹相干探测器发展状况,包括超导隧道结混频器(SIS)和超导热电子混频器(HEB),以及以超导动态电感探测器(MKIDs)和超导相变边缘探测器(TES)为代表的非相干探测器的研究。在此基础上,展望了该领域未来发展趋势,对我国太赫兹天文探测技术的发展具有一定的参考意义。     

高温超导约瑟夫森结太赫兹混频系统

在小型脉冲管制冷机（工作温度约60 K）上搭建了高温超导约瑟夫森结太赫兹谐波混频系统,并采取了一系列措施增强结与太赫兹波的耦合。所采取的措施主要有:研究不同基片对结的影响并最终选择MgO做为双晶结基片,设计平面周期对数天线,同时使用一个超半球硅透镜和两个离轴抛物面反射镜组成准光学系统。最终成功在小型脉冲管制冷机中获得结对623 GHz太赫兹波的响应,并且成功进行24次谐波混频实验。     

光电导天线太赫兹辐射峰值调控研究

针对微结构光电导天线与飞秒激光之间相互作用效应以及辐射太赫兹波调控问题进行了研究。采用德鲁德-洛伦兹理论模型获得微结构光电导天线辐射光电流密度,通过时域有限差分把光电流密度迭代在激励网格上,结合麦克斯韦方程求解时变电磁场,并通过传输线格林函数获得多层介质近场到远场的辐射太赫兹波,建立了辐射光电流与辐射阻抗、电磁共振模式之间的关系模型,模拟仿真分析了微结构S型光电导天线太赫兹波辐射调控机理。研究结果表明:微结构改变了天线等效模型的辐射阻抗;同时得知耦合系数不为零时存在耦合作用,且随着耦合系数增大共振频率峰值发生辐射增强和位移;并通过设计S型光电导天线获得辐射峰值频率调整范围为0.50~0.80 THz之间,对比工形天线辐射峰值频率由原来的0.40 T移动到0.76 T,频率调整度75%,峰值辐射效率约提高70%。该研究工作为后续高功率光导天线太赫兹波辐射的共振中心频点以及结构设计奠定重要基础。     

光电导天线辐射阻抗特性模拟分析(英文)

针对连续太赫兹光电导天线辐射功率较低的缺点,利用有限积分方法对三种常用的光电导天线,包括偶极天线、蝶形天线和螺旋天线,进行数值模拟并分析比较其辐射阻抗特性.仿真结果表明,偶极天线的辐射阻抗与偶极长度、宽度、电极间隙以及传输线宽度有关,且在其谐振频率存在峰值阻抗,适用于特定频率的太赫兹波辐射.蝶形天线和螺旋天线在所研究的太赫兹波段具有近似稳定的辐射阻抗,广泛应用于宽带领域.对带有交叉电极的电极间隙进行计算,结果表明由交叉电极引入的附加电容降低了天线的高频阻抗.     

采用平面天线改善高Tc超导Josenhson结与信号源之间的耦合

为了加强微波信号与Ｊｏｓｅｐｈｓｏｎ结的耦合，我们设计制作了平面对数周期和等角螺旋天线．在Ｊｏｐｈｓｏｎ结上接有天线和不接天线时，分别测量零电压超流被微波功率压缩的情况，结果表明，该天线有效地提高了信号源与Ｊｏｓｈｓｏｎ结的耦合程度．这一方法可以应用到毫米波与亚毫米波段的谐波混频器上．     

采用平面天线改善高Tc超导Josephson结与信号源之间的耦合

为了加强微波信号与Ｊｏｓｅｐｈｓｏｎ结的耦合，我们设计制作了平面对数周期和等角螺旋天线，在Ｊｏｓｅｐｈｓｏｎ结上接有天线和不接天一时，分别测量零电压超流被微波功能压缩的情况，结果表明，该天线有效地提高了信号源与Ｊｏｓｅｐｈｓｏｎ结的耦合程度，这一方法可以应用到毫米波与亚毫米波段的谐波混频器上。     

二维电子气等离激元太赫兹波器件

固态等离激元太赫兹波器件正成为微波毫米波电子器件技术和半导体激光器技术向太赫兹波段发展和融合的重要方向之一。本综述介绍AlGaN/GaN异质结高浓度和高迁移率二维电子气中的等离激元调控、激发及其在太赫兹波探测器、调制器和光源中应用的近期研究进展。通过光栅和太赫兹天线实现自由空间太赫兹波与二维电子气等离激元的耦合,通过太赫兹法布里-珀罗谐振腔进一步调制太赫兹波模式,增强太赫兹波与等离激元的耦合强度。在光栅-谐振腔耦合的二维电子气中验证了场效应栅控的等离激元色散关系,实现了等离激元模式与太赫兹波腔模强耦合产生的等离极化激元模式,演示了太赫兹波的调制和发射。在太赫兹天线耦合二维电子气中实现了等离激元共振与非共振的太赫兹波探测,建立了太赫兹场效应混频探测的物理模型,指导了室温高灵敏度自混频探测器的设计与优化。研究表明,基于非共振等离激元激发可发展形成室温高速高灵敏度的太赫兹探测器及其焦平面阵列技术。然而,固态等离激元的高损耗特性仍是制约基于等离激元共振的高效太赫兹光源和调制器的主要瓶颈。未来的研究重点将围绕高品质因子等离激元谐振腔的构筑,包括固态等离激元物理、等离激元谐振腔边界的调控、新型室温高迁移率二维电子材料的运用和高品质太赫兹谐振腔与等离激元器件的集成等。     

超导SIS结偏置源电路的设计

针对超导SIS隧道结器件的传输特性,设计和制备了为超导SIS器件提供直流偏置的电路,该偏置源电路采用恒压源与恒流源合二为一的技术,恒压源采用了电压深度负反馈设计,恒流源采用了电流反馈法。并用MULTISIM10对电路进行仿真和参数验证。利用该偏置源对SIS结进行供电实测,取得了良好效果。实现了高稳定度、高精度、低噪声的电路设计。     

基于频率梳的太赫兹频率精密测量方法研究

利用光纤飞秒激光器与光纤耦合型太赫兹光电导天线,构建了一套全光纤太赫兹频率梳系统。基于锁相技术实现了对频率梳重复频率信号的高稳定度锁定,在取样时间为100 s时锁定精度达到3.3×10-13,并获得了信噪比优于50 d B的太赫兹拍频信号。基于频率梳测试方法实现了太赫兹频率的高精度测量,测量不确定度为5×10~(-11)。     

ALMA Band 10 tertiary optics

The ALMA Band 10 (787–950 GHz) receiver is a dual-polarization heterodyne system based on NbTiN superconducting technology. The coupling of energy from the secondary mirror of the ALMA Cassegrain antenna to the Superconductor–Insulator–Superconductor (SIS) mixers used for down-conversion is achieved by a frequency-independent optical system composed of two elliptical mirrors to focus and redirect the incoming radiation, a wire-grid to separate orthogonal linear polarizations and two corrugated horns, one for each polarization and SIS mixer. In this paper, we present the ALMA Band 10 tertiary optics design and evaluate its performance by quasi-optical techniques, Physical Optics simulations and measurements. Detailed results of secondary aperture efficiency and beam-squint are provided. The characterization procedure described in this paper can be used for any optical system at around 1 THz.     

A 345 GHZ heterodyne receiver for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

In this paper we describe the design and performance of a low-noise 345 GHz heterodyne receiver. The mixer uses a lead alloy SIS tunnel junction mounted in reduced height rectangular waveguide and is tuned with a single backshort. Local oscillator power is provided by a broad-band Gunn oscillator which drives a frequency quadrupler. The heterodyne performance has been verified in the laboratory using a gas absorption cell. In November 1991 this receiver was successfully commissioned and by direct comparison with a Schottky diode receiver we confirm a best receiver noise temperature of 150K (DSB) at 355 GHz and a tuning range of 300 to 380 GHz. The receiver is now available as a JCMT facility instrument.     

Excitation of anti-symmetric coupled spoof SPPs in 3D SIS waveguides based on coupling

According to the electromagnetic field distributions, there exist two kinds of coupled spoof surface plasmon polaritons(SSPPs), the symmetric and anti-symmetric modes, in the three-dimensional(3D) subwavelength spoof–insulator–spoof(SIS) waveguide. We study the dispersion and excitation of the two kinds of coupled SSPPs supported by the 3D SIS waveguide. The evolution of the dispersion with the thickness and gap width of the waveguide is numerically investigated,and we give a theoretical analysis according to the coupling mechanism. Specially, based on the coupling mechanism,we design a zipper structure, through which the excitation and propagation of the anti-symmetric coupled modes can be realized effectively.     

基于嵌入式系统的发射度测量仪

基于嵌入式系统的发射度测量仪采用法拉第筒测量方法,数据采样率达到200 kHz,设计有7个不同的电流采样量程。讨论了发射度测量仪的系统构成和工作原理,详细介绍了其数据采集系统的设计与制作。通过选用高速、低噪声的集成电路芯片并组合适当大小、适宜材料的电阻和电容构建模拟链路,贯穿于整个模拟链路的滤波设计和低噪声的模拟电源技术及屏蔽防护技术都保证了低噪声采集电路的实现。实验测试表明:在量程为10 nA时,该测量仪测量精度为1.47%,量程1 000 nA时则达到0.32%;采样20 kHz的正弦波信号失真度为6.5 dB;运动精度为1.25 m时,运动速度最高3.125 mm/s。     

A simple multiple beam lo coupler for SIS heterodyne arrays

The construction of SIS heterodyne imaging arrays for submillimetre wave-lengths requires multiple coupling of the local oscillator signal. The quasi-optical analogue of a multiple cross-guide coupler, employing 45° beam-splitters successively stacked along the local oscillator beam, allows for individual adjustment of local oscillator power to each channel. We analyse the coupling as a function of the focal ratio of the incident beams and the number of beam widths off-axis through which the coupler is extended, and describe a simple construction method to realise a compact and effective design.     

Measurement of integrated tuning elements for SIS mixes with a Fourier transform spectrometer

Planar lithographed quasioptical mixers can profit from the use of integrated tuning elements to improve the coupling between the antenna and the SIS mixer junctions. We have used a Fourier transform spectrometer with an Hg-arc lamp source as an RF sweeper to measure the frequency response of such integrated tuning elements. The SIS junction connected to the tuning element served as the direct detector for the spectrometer. This relatively quick, easy experiment can give enough information over a broad range of millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths to test both design concepts and success in fabrication. One type of tuning element, an inductive wire connected in parallel with a series array of 5 SIS junctions across the terminals of a bow-tie antenna, shows a resonant response peak at 100 GHz with a 30% bandwidth. This result is in excellent agreement with theoretical calculations based on a simple L-C circuit. It also agrees very well with the RF frequency dependence of the mixer gain measured using the same structure. The other type of tuning element, an open-circuited stub connected in parallel with a single SIS junction across the terminals of a bow-tie antenna, exhibits multiple resonances at 110, 220, and 336 GHz, with bandwidths of 9–15 GHz. This result is in good agreement with theoretical calculations based on an open-circuited stub with small loss and small dispersion. The position and the bandwidth of the resonance at 110 GHz also agrees with the RF frequency dependence of the mixer gain measured using similar structures.Work supported by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Grant No. AFOSR 85-0230.Contribution of the U.S. Government not subject to copyright.     

Low-noise millimeter- and submillimeter-wave receivers

A review of the current state in the development of receivers with an extremely low noise level in the short-wave part of the millimeter (mm) and submillimeter (submm)-wave bands is presented. A superheterodyne with a mixer at the input remains the main type of such receivers. The mixers using superconductor-insulator-superconductor (SIS) tunnel contacts and having noise temperatures very close to the quantum limit dominate at frequencies of up to ~1 THz. At the higher frequencies, the best results were obtained with hot-electron bolometers as mixers where the strong dependence of the semiconductor resistance on the temperature T_c is employed. Examples of the SIS receivers and cooled Schottky-barrier diode (SBD) receivers developed at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences are slightly inferior to SIS receivers in noise temperature but are useful for many applications. The prospects of low-noise reception in the mm and submm-wave bands, in particular the prospects of using integrated receivers and multipath systems, are discussed. Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 41, No. 11, pp. 1424–1447, November, 1998.     

Noise and thermal properties of a submillimeter mixer with the SINS tunnel junction

In this work we present for the first time a low-noise submillimeter receiver with a mixer using Superconductor-Insulator-Normal metal-Superconductor (SINS) junctions. Junctions containing a normal metal layer may be free of the Josephson current and of the related perturbations of mixer operation specific for the standard SIS mixers. This SINS mixer quality is important for the application in the multibeam submillimeter receiver. The SINS mixer stability of operation and independence on the magnetic field have been confirmed in our experiment. Minimum SINS receiver noise in the 290 – 330 GHz band is about 135 K when the junction R_NC is about 30. Noise, conversion gain and thermal properties of the SINS mixer have been studied and compared with the SIS mixers. The limit of SINS mixer operation improvement is discussed at the end of the work.     

A Novel LO Power Injection Method for SIS Mixers

We propose a novel LO power injection method developed for SIS mixers in this paper. Based on the feature of extremely small LO power requirements of SIS quantum mixing, the new method fulfills SIS pumping through a DC/IF route based built-in LO path, which is composed of an additional LO waveguide and the existing microstrip choke filter on the junction substrate. With the new method, traditional external LO diplexers(e.g., crossguide-couplers or beamsplitters) become unnecessary, resulting in a lower loss, compact, and stable receiver system. Experiments at 110- and 230 GHz bands have shown that the present method is efficient in coupling sufficient pumping power to SIS junctions from general LO sources, and the receiver sensitivities have a further improvement of about 10 K. We expect this method is also able to be applied into submillimeter wave band for SIS mixers.     

Ku波段低温低噪声放大器设计

本文采用插指电容新结构设计了一个Ku波段低温低噪声放大器(LNA),并通过优化的封装工艺制备了放大器样品,分析了隔离器对LNA性能的影响.在77K温度下测试结果表明,放大器增益约10dB,噪声系数小于2.0dB,反射系数小于-17dB.