TREND - A low noise terahertz receiver user instrument for AST/RO at the South Pole

Eyal Gerecht; Sigfrid Yngvesson; John Nicholson; Yan Zhuang; Fernando Rodriguez-Morales; Xin Zhao; Dazhen Gu; Richard Zannoni; Michael Coulombe; Jason Dickinson; Thomas Goyette; Jerry Waldman; Christopher Groppi; Abigail Hedden; Dathon Golish; Christopher Walker; Antony Stark; Christopher Martin; Adair Lane

doi:10.1117/12.459316

TREND - A low noise terahertz receiver user instrument for AST/RO at the South Pole

Eyal Gerecht, Sigfrid Yngvesson, John Nicholson, Yan Zhuang, Fernando Rodriguez-Morales, Xin Zhao, Dazhen Gu, Richard Zannoni, Michael Coulombe, Jason Dickinson, Thomas Goyette, Jerry Waldman, Christopher Groppi, Abigail Hedden, Dathon Golish, Christopher Walker, Antony Stark, Christopher Martin, Adair Lane

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Abstract

Based on the excellent performance of NbN HEB mixer receivers at THz frequencies which we have established in the laboratory, we are building a Terahertz REceiver with NbN HEB Device (TREND) to be installed on the 1.7 meter diameter AST/RO submillimeter wave telescope at the Amundsen/Scott South Pole Station. TREND is scheduled for deployment during the austral summer season of 2002/2003. The frequency range of 1.25 THz to 1.5 THz was chosen in order to match the good windows for atmospheric transmission and interstellar spectral lines of special interest. The South Pole Station is the best available site for THz observations due to the very cold and dry atmosphere over this site. In this paper, we report on the design of this receiver. In particular, we report on HEB mixer device performance, the quasi-optical coupling design using an elliptical silicon lens and a twin-slot antenna, the laser local oscillator (LO), as well as the mixer block design and the plans for coupling the TREND receiver to the sky beam and to the laser LO at the AST/RO telescope site.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Editors	T.G. Phillips, J. Zmuidzinas
Pages	574-582
Number of pages	9
Volume	4855
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.459316
State	Published - 2002
Externally published	Yes
Event	Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors for Astronomy - Waikaloa, HI, United States Duration: Aug 25 2002 → Aug 28 2002

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Other	Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors for Astronomy
Country/Territory	United States
City	Waikaloa, HI
Period	8/25/02 → 8/28/02

Keywords

HEB
Quasi-optical receivers
Radio telescopes
Submillimeter
Superconducting devices
Terahertz mixers

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Condensed Matter Physics

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Gerecht, E., Yngvesson, S., Nicholson, J., Zhuang, Y., Rodriguez-Morales, F., Zhao, X., Gu, D., Zannoni, R., Coulombe, M., Dickinson, J., Goyette, T., Waldman, J., Groppi, C., Hedden, A., Golish, D., Walker, C., Stark, A., Martin, C., & Lane, A. (2002). TREND - A low noise terahertz receiver user instrument for AST/RO at the South Pole. In T. G. Phillips, & J. Zmuidzinas (Eds.), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 4855, pp. 574-582) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.459316

TREND - A low noise terahertz receiver user instrument for AST/RO at the South Pole. / Gerecht, Eyal; Yngvesson, Sigfrid; Nicholson, John et al.
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. ed. / T.G. Phillips; J. Zmuidzinas. Vol. 4855 2002. p. 574-582.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Gerecht, E, Yngvesson, S, Nicholson, J, Zhuang, Y, Rodriguez-Morales, F, Zhao, X, Gu, D, Zannoni, R, Coulombe, M, Dickinson, J, Goyette, T, Waldman, J, Groppi, C, Hedden, A, Golish, D, Walker, C, Stark, A, Martin, C & Lane, A 2002, TREND - A low noise terahertz receiver user instrument for AST/RO at the South Pole. in TG Phillips & J Zmuidzinas (eds), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. vol. 4855, pp. 574-582, Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors for Astronomy, Waikaloa, HI, United States, 8/25/02. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.459316

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