Hot electron bolometer heterodyne receiver with a 4.7-THz quantum cascade laser as a local oscillator

We report on a heterodyne receiver designed to observe the astrophysically important neutral atomic oxygen [OI] line at 4.7448 THz. The local oscillator is a third-order distributed feedback quantum cascade laser operating in continuous wave mode at 4.741 THz. A quasi-optical, superconducting NbN ho...

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Main Authors: Kloosterman, J. L. (Author), Hayton, D. J. (Author), Ren, Y. (Author), Hovenier, J. N. (Author), Gao, J. R. (Author), Klapwijk, T. M. (Author), Walker, C. K. (Author), Reno, J. L. (Author), Kao, Tsung-Yu (Contributor), Hu, Qing (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2014-05-02T17:27:22Z.
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