Terahertz Heterodyne Receiver with an Electron-Heating Mixer and a Heterodyne Based on the Quantum-Cascade Laser


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Abstract

We study characteristics of the laboratory prototype of a terahertz heterodyne receiver with an electron-heating mixer and a heterodyne based on the quantum-cascade laser. The results obtained demonstrate the possibility to use this receiver as a basis for creation of a high-sensitivity terahertz spectrometer, which can be used in many basic and practical applications. A significant advantage of this receiver will be the possibility of placing the mixer and heterodyne in the same cryostat, which will reduce the device dimensions considerably. The obtained experimental results are analyzed, and methods of optimizing the parameters of the receiver are proposed.

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S.V. Seliverstov

Moscow Pedagogical State University

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Email: seliverstovsv@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow

V. A. Anfertyev

Institute of Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences; N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Email: seliverstovsv@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod; Nizhny Novgorod

I. V. Tretyakov

Moscow Pedagogical State University; Institute of Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: seliverstovsv@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow; Nizhny Novgorod

I. A. Ozheredov

M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University

Email: seliverstovsv@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow

P. M. Solyankin

M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University

Email: seliverstovsv@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow

L. S. Revin

Institute of Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences; N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Email: seliverstovsv@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod; Nizhny Novgorod

V. L. Vaks

Institute of Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences; N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Email: seliverstovsv@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod; Nizhny Novgorod

A. A. Rusova

Moscow Pedagogical State University

Email: seliverstovsv@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow

G. N. Goltsman

Moscow Pedagogical State University; National Research University “Higher School of Economics”

Email: seliverstovsv@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow; Moscow

A. P. Shkurinov

M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University

Email: seliverstovsv@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow

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