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Heterodyne Detection with Superconducting Point Contacts and Enhanced Heterodyne Signals from Tightly Coupled Contacts

 

作者: J. E. Zimmerman,  

 

期刊: Journal of Applied Physics  (AIP Available online 1970)
卷期: Volume 41, issue 4  

页码: 1589-1593

 

ISSN:0021-8979

 

年代: 1970

 

DOI:10.1063/1.1659076

 

出版商: AIP

 

数据来源: AIP

 

摘要:

Several modes of operation of point contacts as heterodyne detectors in the frequency range 0 to 1010Hz were investigated experimentally. A point contact in a superconducting loop, under the application of two externally generated ac fields, behaved as expected on the basis of a model given previously. Likewise, a point contact in a partly resistive loop, in which an externally generated signal is heterodyned with the Josephson oscillation of the contact, gave the expected results. In both cases the heterodyne signal amplitude exhibits a decaying oscillatory (Bessel‐function‐like) dependence on applied signal level; the heterodyne power at the first peak being approximately 0.1&phgr;02f0/L, wheref0is the heterodyne frequency,Lthe loop inductance, and &phgr;0the flux quantum. On the other hand, an anomalously large heterodyne signal was obtained from a pair of closely coupled Josephson‐oscillating contacts. No explanation of this result is offered, but it appears that a sort of amplification of the heterodyne signal is effected when the Josephson frequencies are larger than the heterodyne frequency.

 

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