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Absorbed heterodyne power has been measured in a low-noise broadband hot-electron bolometer (HEB) mixer for the terahertz range, operating on the effect of electron heating in the resistive state of an ultrathin superconducting NbN film. It is established that the optimum absorbed heterodyne power for the HEB mixer operating at 2.5 THz is about 100 nW.
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Original Russian Text © I.V. Tret’yakov, S.A. Ryabchun, N.S. Kaurova, P.A. Larionov, A.A. Lobastova, B.M. Voronov, M.I. Finkel, G.N. Gol’tsman, 2010, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2010, Vol. 36, No. 23, pp. 78–84.
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Tret’yakov, I.V., Ryabchun, S.A., Kaurova, N.S. et al. Optimum absorbed heterodyne power for superconducting NbN hot-electron bolometer mixer. Tech. Phys. Lett. 36, 1103–1105 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785010120114
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