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

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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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  1. Moscow Pedagogical State University, Moscow, Russia

    S.V. Seliverstov, I. V. Tretyakov, A. A. Rusova & G. N. Goltsman

  2. Institute of Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    V. A. Anfertyev, I. V. Tretyakov, L. S. Revin & V. L. Vaks

  3. N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    V. A. Anfertyev, L. S. Revin & V. L. Vaks

  4. M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    I. A. Ozheredov, P. M. Solyankin & A. P. Shkurinov

  5. National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Moscow, Russia

    G. N. Goltsman

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 60, No. 7, pp. 579–587, July 2017.

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Seliverstov, S., Anfertyev, V.A., Tretyakov, I.V. et al. Terahertz Heterodyne Receiver with an Electron-Heating Mixer and a Heterodyne Based on the Quantum-Cascade Laser. Radiophys Quantum El 60, 518–524 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-017-9822-y

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