Title :
Design and performance of the flight configuration SIR on TELIS
Author :
Yagoubov, P. ; de Lange, G. ; Hoogeveen, R. ; Koshelets, V.
Author_Institution :
SRON Netherlands Inst. for Space Res., Groningen
Abstract :
We present the flight configuration and performance of the superconducting integrated receiver (SIR) channel on the TELIS instrument (terahertz and submm limb sounder). The SIR is an on-chip combination of a low-noise SIS mixer with a quasioptical antenna, a superconducting flux flow oscillator (FFO) acting as local oscillator (LO) and an SIS harmonic mixer (HM) for FFO phase locking. The SIR has been assembled, fully integrated into the system and is currently being thoroughly tested in preparation for the flight campaign in October 2007 (Teresina, Brazil).
Keywords :
submillimetre wave integrated circuits; submillimetre wave mixers; superconducting devices; FFO phase locking; SIS harmonic mixer; TELIS instrument; flight configuration; low-noise SIS mixer; quasioptical antenna; submm limb sounder; superconducting flux flow oscillator; superconducting integrated receiver channel; terahertz limb sounder; Assembly systems; Circuit testing; Instruments; Local oscillators; Optical mixing; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Spectroscopy; Superconducting devices; System testing; limb sounding; submillimeter wave integrated circuits; superconducting devices;
Conference_Titel :
Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 2007 and the 2007 15th International Conference on Terahertz Electronics. IRMMW-THz. Joint 32nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cardiff
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1438-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICIMW.2007.4516645
