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., Hayton, D. J., Ren, Y., Hovenier, J. N., Gao, J. R., Klapwijk, T. M., Walker, C. K., Reno, J. L., Kao, Tsung-Yu, Hu, Qing
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Institute of Physics (AIP) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86379
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1982-4053