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EIGHTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

ON SPACE TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY

March 21-23, 2007

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, California, USA

1. Session 1 Terahertz Systems 1, Chair: Tom Phillips

   • SOFIA: An Observatory for THz Science and Technology

     Eric E. Becklin, Sean C. Casey, and Xander Tielens

   • Spectroscopy with the Herschel Space Observatory

     Paul F. Goldsmith

   • The Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope

     Simon J. E. Radford, Riccardo Giovanelli, Thomas A. Sebring, Jonas Zmuidzinas

   • The Submillimeter Array

     Raymond Blundell

2. Session 2 SIS mixers I, Chair: Edward Tong

   • Construction and Characterization of a Sideband-separating heterodyne mixer for Band 9 of ALMA.

     F.P. Mena, J. Kooi, A.M. Baryshev, C.F.J. Lodewijk, T.M. Klapwijk, R. Hesper, and W. Wild

   • SIS Mixer for 385 – 500 GHz with On-Chip LO injection

     Raquel Monje, Victor Belitsky, Christophe Risacher, Vessen Vassilev and Alexey Pavolotsky

   • Development of 1THz SIS mixer for SOFIA

     A. Karpov, D. Miller, J. A. Stern, B. Bumble, H. G. LeDuc, J. Zmuidzinas

   • Performance and modeling of 700 GHz SIS finline mixers

     Paul K. Grimes, Ghassan Yassin, Stafford Withington, and Karl Jacobs

   • Tolerance Analysis of THz-Range Lens-Antenna and Balanced SIS Mixers

     Andrey V. Uvarov, Sergey V. Shitov, Oleg V. Koryukin, Maksim A. Bukovski, Yoshinori Uzawa, Takashi Noguchi, Matthias Kroug, Masanori Takeda, Zhen Wang and A. N. Vystavkin

3. Session 3 Local Oscillators, Chair: Imran Mehdi

   • Development of Multiplier Based Sources for Frequencies up to 2 THz

     T.W. Crowe, D.W. Porterfield, J.L. Hesler, W.L. Bishop, G.S. Schoenthal, D.S. Kurtz and K. Hui

   • A 780-950GHz Frequency Tripler for Radio Astronomy

     Alain Maestrini, Charlotte Tripon-Canseliet, John S. Ward, John J. Gill, Erich Schlecht, Goutam Chattopadhyay, and Imran Mehdi

   • Maximizing SNR in LO Chains for ALMA Single-Ended Mixers

     Eric W. Bryerton, Matthew A. Morgan, Dorsey L. Thacker and Kamaljeet S. Saini

   • Beam patterns of distributed feedback surface-plasmon THz quantum cascade lasers

     J.N. Hovenier, S. Paprotskiy, J.R. Gao, P. Khosropana, T.M. Klapwijk, L. Ajili, M. A. Ines, and J. Faist

   • Development and Design of a 340 GHz Photomixer Source

     Biddut Banik, Josip Vukusic, Syed Mahmudur Rahman, Henrik Sunnerud, and Jan Stake

4. Session 4 Direct Detectors I, Chair: Jonas Zmuidzinas

   • Noise and responsivity measurements in Hot-Electron Direct Detectors

     Boris Karasik, David Olaya, Jian Wei, Sergey Pereverzev, Michael Gershenson, Jonathan Kawamura, William McGrath, and Andrei Sergeev

   • Development of a Large Format Fully SampledBolometer Camera for 2 mm Wavelength

     Dominic J. Benford, Johannes G. Staguhn, Christine A. Allen, Troy J. Ames, Ernest D. Buchanan, Stephen F. Maher, S. Harvey Moseley, Elmer H. Sharp, Edward J. Wollack

   • Design Constraints on Transition Edge Sensor Pixels for Filled Arrays

     J. A. Chervenak, C. A. Allen, D. Benford, M. Niemack, J. Lau, T. Marriage, S. Staggs

   • Responsivity and Noise Measurements of Zero-Bias Schottky Diode Detectors

     Jeffrey L. Hesler and Thomas W. Crowe

   • An Antenna Coupled Cold-Electron Bolometer for High Performance Cosmology Instruments

     Leonid Kuzmin, Ghassan Yassin, Stafford Withington, and Paul Grimes

5. Poster session, Chairs: Peter Siegel and Ghassan Yassin

   • Recommendations for Waveguide Interfaces to 1 THz

     J.L. Hesler, A.R. Kerr, W. Grammer, and E. Wollack

   • A Low-Loss Dielectric Waveguide Structure for Terahertz Applications

     Daryoosh Saeedkia, Mohammad Neshat, Suren Gigoyan, and Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

   • Large bolometers arrays with NbSi sensors for future space experiments

     F. Pajot, Y. Atik, C. Evesque, S. Lefranc, B. Leriche, J.-P. Torre, B. Bélier, N. Marsot, L. Dumoulin, L. Bergé, M. Piat, E. Bréelle, D. Prêle, A. Benoit, C. Hoffmann, T. Durand, P. Camus, D. Santos, F.-X. Désert, Yong Jin, M. Giard

   • A Quantum-limited Submillimeter Mixer with an Inhomogeneous Distributed SIS Junction Array

     Wenlei Shan, Shengcai Shi, Yutaro Sekimoto, and Takashi Noguchi

   • 2.5THz multipixel heterodyne receiver based on NbN HEB mixers

     S. Cherednichenko, V. Drakinskiy, J. Baubert, B. Lecomte, F. Dauplay, J.-M. Krieg, Y. Delorme, A. Feret, H.-W. Hübers, A.D. Semenov, and G.N. Gol’tsman

   • High current-density aluminum-nitride tunnel barriers grown by plasma nitridation from a remote plasma source

     T. Zijlstra, C. F. J. Lodewijk, D. N. Loudkov and T. M. Klapwijk

   • Integration and performance of the flight configuration SIR on TELIS

     P. Yagoubov, G. de Lange, R. Hoogeveen, V. Koshelets, G. Wagner, and M. Birk

   • Development of high-Q superconducting resonators for use as Kinetic Inductance detectors

     J. Baselmans, S.J.C. Yates, R. Barends, J.N Hovenier, J.R. Gao, and T.M. Klapwijk

   • Superconductive parallel junctions arrays for Submm-wave local oscillator applications

     F. Boussaha, M. Salez, J-G. Caputo, L. Loukitch, M. Chaubet

   • The Impact of Standing Waves in the LO path of a Heterodyne Receiver

     O. Siebertz, C. Honingh, T. Tils, C. Gal, M. Olbrich, R. Bieber, F. Schmuelling, R. Schieder

   • THz direct detector with 2D electron gas periodic structure absorber

     D. Morozov, P. Mauskopf, I. Bacchus, M. Elliott, C. Dunscombe, M. Hopkinson, and M. Henini

   • A High Power Frequency Tripler for 100 GHz

     Tomas Bryllert, Josip Vukusic, and Jan Stake

   • High Output Power Low Noise Amplifier Chains at 100GHz

     F. Maiwald, R. Lin, R. Dengler, S. Smith, J. C. Pearson, I. Mehdi, T. Gaier and J. Crowley

   • The Wide-Band Spectrometer (WBS) for the HIFI instrument of Herschel

     O. Siebertz, F. Schmülling, C. Gal, F. Schloeder, P. Hartogh, V. Natale, R.Schieder

   • FFT spectrometer for (sub)mm radiometer applications

     A. Emrich, M. Krus, J. Riesbeck

   • Membrane Tip Probes for On-Wafer Measurements in the 220 to 325 GHz Band

     Richard Campbell, Michael Andrews, Lorene Samoska, Andy Fung

   • Sideband ratio in double sideband receivers with a Michelson interferometer

     M. Romanini, A. M. Baryshev, R. Hesper, F. P. Mena, W. Wild

   • Influence of substrates and buffer layers on the quality of NbN ultra thin film for THz HEB

     B. Guillet, V. Drakinskiy, R. Gunnarsson, O. Arthursson, L. Méchin, S. Cherednichenko, Y. Delorme, J.M. Krieg

   • Reflection measurement of absorption coatings using 600-670 GHz vector network analyzer

     A.M. Baryshev, W. Jellema, R. Hesper, W. Wild

   • Measurement of in-RF and out-RF band saturation of SIS mixer

     A.M. Baryshev, F.P. Mena, R. Hesper, C.F.J. Lodewijk, D.N. Loudkov, and T.M. Klapwijk

   • Performance of ALMA band 9 receiver series

     A.M. Baryshev, R. Hesper, F.P. Mena, B.D. Jackson, J. Adema, J. Barkhof, W. Wild, M. Candotti, M. Whale, C. Lodewijk, D. Loudkov, T. Zijlstra, T.M. Klapwijk

   • Optical design of the submillimeter limb sounder TELIS

     P. Yagoubov, A. Baryshev, R. Hesper, V. Koshelets, G. Wagner, M. Birk, and A. Murk

6. Session 5 Direct Detectors II (KID), Chair: Boris Karasik

   • Superconducting microresonators for photon detection

     J. Zmuidzinas, P. K. Day, J. Gao, J. Glenn, S. Golwala, S. Kumar, H. G. LeDuc, B. A. Mazin, J. Schlaerth, and A. Vayonakis

   • Lumped Element Kinetic Inductance Detectors

     Simon Doyle, Jack Naylon, Philip Mauskopf, Adrian Porch, and Chris Dunscombe

   • Terra Hertz imaging using superconducting kinetec inductance detectors:

     S.J.C.Yates, J.J.A. Baselmans, R. Barends, J.N. Hovenier, J.R. Gao, and T.M. Klapwijk

   • A Millimeter/Submillimeter Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector Camera for Multicolor Mapping

     Jason Glenn, Peter K. Day, Sunil Golwala, Shwetank Kumar, Henry G. LeDuc, Benjamin A. Mazin, Hien T. Nguyen, James Schlaerth, Anastasios Vayonakis, and Jonas Zmuidzinas

   • Quasiparticle lifetime in tantalum kinetic inductance detectors

     R. Barends, J. N. Hovenier, J. R. Gao, T. M. Klapwijk, J. J. A. Baselmans, S. J. C. Yates, Y. J. Y. Lankwarden, and H. F. C. Hoevers

7. Session 6 HEB mixers, Chair: Jian-Rong Gao

   • Development of HEB mixers for GREAT and for security screening

     A. Semenov, H. Richter, A. Smirnov, B. Günther, H.-W. Hübers, K. Il’in, M. Siegel, G. Gol’tsman, V. Drakinskiy, H. Merkel, and J. Karamarkovic

   • Highly Packaged HEB Receivers Using Three-Dimensional Integration

     F. Rodriguez-Morales, S. Yngvesson, D. Gu, N. Wadefalk, K. Fu, C. Chan, J. Nicholson, and E. Gerecht

   • Sensitivity of an NbN hot electron bolometer based heterodyne receiver at 4.3 THz

     P. Khosropanah, W.M. Laauwen, J.R. Gao, M. Hajenius, J.N. Hovenier, and T.M. Klapwijk

   • Stabilisation of a Terahertz Hot-Electron Bolometer mixer with microwave feedback control

     Sergey Ryabchuna, Cheuk-yu Edward Tonga, Raymond Blundella, Robert Kimberka, and Gregory Gol’tsman

8. Session 7 Optics and waveguides, Chair: Paul Goldsmith

   • A High Performance Horn for Large Format Focal Plane Arrays

     G. Yassin, P. Kittara, A. Jiralucksanawong, S. Wangsuya, J. Leech, and Mike Jones

   • Measurement of a high-gain antenna at 650 GHz in a hologram-based CATR

     A.V. Räisänen, J. Ala-Laurinaho, J. Häkli, A. Karttunen, T. Koskinen, A. Lönnqvist, J. Mallat, E. Noponen, A. Tamminen, M. Vaaja, and V. Viikari

   • Near-Field beam measurements of corrugated horns for ALMA band 10

     Y. Uzawa, M. Sugimoto, K .Kimura, R. Nohara, T. Manabe, H. Ogawa, Y. Fujii, W.-L. Shan, M. Kroug, and S. Shitov

   • Slot Antenna Array for CMB Polarization Detection

     Goutam Chattopadhyay, Peter Day, Chao-Lin Kuo, James J. Bock, and Andrew E. Lange

9. Session 8 THz receivers and backend, Chair: Karl Jacobs

   • CASIMIR: the Caltech Airborne FIR/Submm, High Resolution Heterodyne Spectrometer

     Michael L. Edgar, Andrew I. Harris, David W. Hawkins, Alexandre Karpov, David Miller, Kevin P. Rauch, and Jonas Zmuidzinas

   • STEAM-R (Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange And climate Monitor Radiometer)

     A. Emrich

   • Laser Sideband Spectrometer: A new spectrometer concept with very large bandwidth

     R. Schieder, O. Siebertz, F. Schloeder, P. Nagy

   • A 3 GHz instantaneous bandwidth Acousto-Optical spectrometer with 1 MHz resolution

     M. Olbrich, V. Mittenzwei, O. Siebertz, F. Schmülling, and R. Schieder

   • Correlators for (sub)mm radiometer applications

     A. Emrich and S. Andersson

10. Session 9 Terahertz Systems II, Chair: Raymond Blundell

    • The James Webb Space Telescope

      Jonathan P. Gardner

    • Clover – Measuring the CMB B-mode polarization

      C. E. North, P. A. R. Ade, M. D. Audley, C. Baines, R. A. Battye, M. L. Brown, P. Cabella, P. G. Calisse, A. D. Challinor, W. D. Duncan, P. Ferreira, W. K. Gear, D. Glowacka, D. J. Goldie, P. K. Grimes, M. Halpern, V. Haynes, G. C. Hilton, K. D. Irwin, B. R. Johnson, M. E. Jones, A. N. Lasenby, P. J. Leahy, J. Leech, S. Lewis, B. Maffei, L. Martinis, P. Mauskopf, S. J. Melhuish, D. O’Dea, S. M. Parsley, L. Piccirillo, G. Pisano, C. D. Reintsema, G. Savini, R. Sudiwala, D. Sutton, A. C. Taylor, G. Teleberg, D. Titterington, V. Tsaneva, C. Tucker, R. Watson, S. Withington, G. Yassin, J. Zhang

    • ESPRIT – A Far-Infrared Space Interferometer

      W. Wild, Th. de Graauw, A. Baryshev, J. Baselmans, A. Bos, J.R. Gao, A. Gunst, F. Helmich, R. ter Horst, B. Jackson, V.P. Koshelets, P. Maat, J. Noordam, P. Roelfsema, L. Venema, N. Whyborn, and P. Yagoubov

    • The “Millimetron” project, a future space telescope mission.

      G.N. Gol’tsman and “Millimetron” collaborators

11. Session 10 SIS mixers II, Chair: Alexandre Karpov

    • Wideband AlN-based SIS devices for frequencies around 700 GHz

      C. F. J. Lodewijk, T. Zijlstra, D. N. Loudkov, T. M. Klapwijk, F. P. Mena, and A. M. Baryshev

    • 100 GHz sideband separating mixer with wide IF band

      D. Maier, D. Billon-Pierron, J. Reverdy, and M. Schicke

    • SuperCam : A 64 pixel superheterodyne camera

      Christopher Groppi, Christopher Walker, Craig Kulesa, Dathon Golish, Patrick Pütz, Paul Gensheimer, Abby Hedden, Shane Bussmann, Sander Weinreb, Glenn Jones, Joseph Barden, Hamdi Mani, Tom Kuiper, Jacob Kooi, Art Lichtenberger, Thomas Cecil, and Gopal Narayanan

    • Upgrades to the CSO Heterodyne Facility Instrumentation: A 280-420 GHz Wide IF band Rx and beyond....

      Jacob Kooi

    • Superconducting Integrated Spectrometer for TELIS

      Valery P. Koshelets, Andrey B. Ermakov, Pavel N. Dmitriev, Lyudmila V. Filippenko, Andrey V. Khudchenko, Nickolay V. Kinev, Oleg S. Kiselev, Alexander S. Sobolev, Mikhail Yu. Torgashin, Pavel A. Yagoubov, Ruud W.M. Hoogeveen, and Wolfgang Wild

12. Session 11 Novel devices and measurements, Chair: Antti Raisanen

    • New Results on Microwave and Terahertz Detection Using Metallic Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

      Sigfrid Yngvesson, Kan Fu, Richard Zannoni, Fernando Rodriguez-Morales, John Nicholson, Stephan Adams, Chak Chan, Alexander de Geofroy, Eric Polizzi, and Joerg Appenzeller

    • Detection of 0.5 THz radiation from Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 single crystals using a superconducting integrated receiver

      I. E. Batov, X. Y. Jin, S. V. Shitov, Y. Koval, P. Mueller, and A. V. Ustinov

    • Logarithmic Growth of AlNx Barriers in Nb/Al–AlNx/Nb Tunnel Junctions

      Akira Endo, Takashi Noguchi, Matthias Kroug, and Tomonori Tamura

    • Monolithic Millimeter-wave and Submillimeter-wave Integrated Circuit (MMIC and S-MMIC) Testing Capabilities at JPL up to 500 GHz

      Lorene Samoska, A. K. Fung, Todd C. Gaier, W. R. Deal, V. Radisic, X.B. Mei, and R. Lai

    • A 675 GHz FMCW Radar with Sub-Centimeter Range Resolution

      Goutam Chattopadhyay, Ken B. Cooper, Robert J. Dengler, Erich Schlecht, Anders Skalare, Imran Mehdi, and Peter H. Siegel

13. Session 12 Schottky mixers and detectors, Chair: Tom Crowe

    • Operation of a Monolithic Planar Schottky Receiver Using a THz Quantum Cascade Laser

      Mark Lee, Albert D. Grine, Michael C. Wanke, Peter H. Siegel, and Robert J. Dengler

    • Influence of Schottky Diode Modelling Under Flat-Band Conditions on the Simulation of Submillimeter-Wave Mixers

      José V. Siles, Jesús Grajal, and A. di Carlo

    • Progress towards an integrated 380 GHz planar Schottky diode heterodyne receiver on single substrate

      Bertrand Thomas, Byron Alderman, John Spencer, Dave Matheson, and Peter de Maagt

    • First Wideband 520-590 GHz Balanced Fundamental Schottky Mixer

      Erich Schlecht, John Gill, Robert Dengler, Robert Lin, Ray Tsang, and Imran Mehdi

    • High-Performance Negative Differential Resistance Oscillators and Combiners

      H. Eisele, Y.-R. Wu, R. Kamoua, and G. I. Haddad

14. Participants

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