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SEVENTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

ON SPACE TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY

May 10-12, 2006

Observatoire de Paris, LERMA

Paris, France

1. Invited Session Chair: Dr. Gerard Beaudin

   • Future Satellite Earth Observation Requirements and Technology in Millimetre and Sub-Millimetre Wavelength Region

     Ulf Klein, Chung-Chi Lin, Joerg Langen, Peter de Maagt and Roland Meynart

2. Oral Session 1 SIS, Chairs: Dr. Jia-Rong Gao & Dr. Karl Jacobs

   • A Superconducting 180° IF Hybrid for Balanced SIS Mixers

   A. R. Kerr, A. W. Lichtenberger, C. M. Lyons, E. F. Lauria, L. M. Ziurys, and M. R. Lambeth

   • Theory of Series-Connected Distributed SIS Mixers with Ultra-Wide Instantaneous Bandwidth

   C.-Y. Edward Tong, Raymond Blundell

   • RF and IF couplers for a sideband separating SIS waveguide mixer for a 345 GHz focal plane array

   M. Justen, T. Tils, P. Pütz, A. Murk, C.E. Homngh, K. Jacobs

   • Side-band-separating heterodyne mixer for band 9 of ALMA.

   F. P. Mena, A. M. Baryshev, J. Kooit , G. Gerlofsma, C. F. J. Lodewijkt, R. Hesper, and W. Wild

   • 1.4 THz SIS mixer development for radio astronomy

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

3. Poster Session 1

   • VO2 TES as Room Temperature THz Detectors

   Biddut K. Banik, Harald F. Merkel

   • Design of coplanar stripline diplexer integrated in large arrays of antenna-coupled bolometers

   Ph. Camus, D. Rauly, O. Guillaudin, F.X. Désert, A. Benoit, T. Durandi

   • A Phonon-Cooled Nb Direct Detector for SubMM Imaging and Spectroscopy

   Boris S. Karasik, Brian J. Drouin, John C. Pearson, Timothy J. Crawford, and Henry G. Leduc

   • Characterization of Quasi-Optical NbN Phonon-cooled Superconducting HEB Mixers

   Ling Jiang, Wei Miao, Wen Zhang, Ning Li, Zhen Hui Lin, Qi Jun Yao, Sheng-Cai Shi, Sergey I. Svechnikov, Yury B. Vakhtomin, Sergey V. Antipov, Boris M. Voronov, Natalia S. Kaurova, and Gregory N. Gol'tsman

   • Direct comparison of the sensitivity of a spiral and a twin-slot antenna coupled HEB mixer at 1 6 THz

   J.R. Gao, M. Hajenius, Z.Q. Yang, T.M. Klapwijk, W. Miao, S. C. Shi, B. Voronov, and G. Gol'tsman

   • Characterization of Diffusion-Cooled Hot-Electron Bolometers for Heterodyne Array Receiver Applications

   Abigail Hedden, Matthew Reese, Daniel Santavicca, Luigi Frunzio, Daniel Prober, Patrick Pütz, Christopher Groppi, and Christopher Walker

   • Gain bandwidth of NbN Heterodyne Hot Electron Bolometer Superconducting Mixers made on thin Si02/Si3N4 membrane

   Vladimir Drakinskiy, Jean Baubert, Sergey Cherednichenko

   • 16 Pixel HEB Heterodyne Receiver for 2.5 THz

   S. Cherednichenko, V. Drakinskiy, J. Baubert, B. Lecomte, F. Dauplay, J.-M. Krieg, Y. Delorrne, A. Feret, H.-W. Hubers, A.D. Semenov, P. Pons

   • Unexpected Frequency Shift on Membrane Based Double-Slot and Double-Dipole HEB Receivers

   F. Dauplay, J. Baubert, Y. Delorme, Bruno Guillet, S. Cherednichenko, V. Drakinskiy, P. Khosropanah

   • Intermediate Frequency Bandwidth of a Hot-Electron Mixer: Comparison with Bolometric Models

   Alexei Semenov, Konstantin Il'in, Michael Siegel, Andrey Smirnov, Sergey Pavlov, Heiko Richter, Heinz-Wilhelm Hubers

   • Optimal Coupling of NbN HEB THz Mixers to Cryogenic HEMT IF Low-Noise Amplifiers

   Fernando Rodriguez-Morales, Sigfrid Yngvesson, Dazhen Gu, Eyal Gerecht, Niklas Wadefalk, Ric Zannoni, and John Nicholson

   • Influence of the direct response on the heterodyne sensitivity of hot electron bolometer mixers

   J.J.A. Baselmans, A. Baryshev, M. Hajenius, J.R. Gao, TM. Klapwijk, B. Voronov, and G. Gol'tsman

   • Quantum Noise in Resistive Mixers

   Harald F. Merkel, Biddut K. Banik

   • Physics of ultra-thin NbN films for phonon-cooled Hot-Electron-Bolometers

   T. Scherer, M. Schicke, and K-F. Schuster

   • Fabrication And Characterization Of Ultrathin PBCO/YBCO/PBCO Constrictions For Further Application As Hot Electron Bolometer Terahertz Mixers

   A.J. Kreisler, A. F. Diegard, Ch. Peroz, J-C. Villégier, M. Chaubet

   • The Band 3 and 4 Flight Model mixer units for HIFI

   G. de Lange, B.D. Jackson, M. Eggens, H. Golstein, W.M. Laauwen, L. de Jong, S. Kikken, C. F'ieters, H. Smit, D. Van Nguyen, T. Zijlstra, M. Kroug, and T.M. Klapwijk

   • Design and development of a 600-720 GI-1z receiver for ALMA Band 9

   A.M. Baryshev, R. Hesper, F.P. Mena, B.D. Jackson, J. Adema, H. Schaeffer, J. Barkhof, W. Wild, M. Candotti, C. Lodewijk, D. Loudkov, T. Zijlstra, 0. Noroozian, and T.M. Klapwijk

   • Development of Balanced SIS Mixers for ALMA Band-10

   Sergey V. Shitov, Oleg V. Koryukin, Yoshinory Uzawa, Takashi Noguchi, Andrey V. Uvarov, Ilya A. Cohn

   • Analysis of subharmonic SIS mixers using SuperMix

   Paul Grimes, Ghassan Yassin, Phichet Kittarat, Stafford Withington

   • Analysis of the Influence of Current Density jc and DC-Quality Q on Mixer Performance around 700 GHz for more than 50 measured 515-Mixers

   R. Teipen, M. Justen, T. Tils, M. Schultz, S. Glenz, P. Ptitz, C.E. Honingh, K. Jacobs

   • Test of 1 mm Band Turnstile Junction Waveguide Orthornode Transducer

   Alessandro Navarrini, Alberto Bolatto, and Richard L. Plambeck

   • Generation of THz radiation with the use of Vortices Located in Josephson ring.

   D.R. Gulevich, F. V. Kusmartsev

   • Ultrafast Superconducting Digital Circuits for Analysis and Processing of Microwave Signals

   Pascal Febvre, Torsten Reich, Thomas Ortlepp, and F. Hermann Uhlmann

   • Study Of Josephson Electrodynamics In Parallel Arrays Of Superconductive Junctions For Submivi-Wave Local Oscillator Applications

   Aim-van Salez, Faouzi Boussaha, Jean-Guy Caputo, Lionel Loukitch

4. Oral Session 2 Direct Detection, Chairs: Dr. Gregory Goltsman & Dr. Anders Skalare

   • Transition Edge Superconducting detector arrays for a 40-200 pm spectrometer on the SPICA telescope

   Philip Mauskopf

   • Ultralow NEP in Hot-Electron Titanium Nanobolometers

   Jian Wei, David Olaya, Sergei Pereverzev, Boris S. Karasi, Jonathan H. Kawamura, William R. McGrath, Andrei V. Sergeyev, and Michael E. Gershenson

   • To the Sensitivity Estimation of TES Bolometers for SubMNI Radiation Detection Operating at Super Low Temperatures

   Alexander N. Vystavkin, Alla G. Kovalenko, Ilya A. Cohn

   • Single Photon counting detector for THz radioastronomy.

   M. Tarkhov, D. Morozov, P. Mauskopf, V. Seleznev, A. Korneev, N. Kaurova, I. Rubtsova, 0. Minaeva, B. Voronov, and G. Goltsman

   • Direct Detection and Interferometer Technologies in Terahertz Region

   Hiroshi Matsuo

   • Prototype finline-coupled TES bolometers for ClOVER

   Michael D. Audley, Robert W. Barker, Michael Crane, Roger Dace, Dorota Glowacka, David J. Goldie, Anthony N. Lasenby, Howard M. Stevenson, Vassilka Tsaneva, Stafford Withington, Paul Grimes, Bradley Johnson, Ghassan Yassin, Lucio Piccirillo, Giampaolo Pisano, William D. Duncan, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. lrwin, Carl D. Reintsema, and Mark Halpern

   • Precise measurement of CMB polarisation from Dome-C: the BRAIN experiment.

   M. Pia, E. Breelle, C. Dufour, Y. Giraud-Heraud, S. Masi, G. Polenta, BRAIN collaboration

5. Oral Session 3 Novel Devices & Technologies for THz, Chairs: Dr. Wojtek Knap & Dr. Peter Siegel

   • Microwave Detection and Mixing in Metallic Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes and Potential for a New Terahertz Detector

   K.S. Yngvesson, F. Rodriguez-Morales, R. Zannoni, J. Nicholson, M. Fischetti and J. Appenzeller

   • RF-to-Millimeter-wave Conductivity Spectra of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

   Mark Lee, C. Highstrete, E. A. Shaner, F. E. Jones, A. A. Talin, D. B. Robinson, and P. M. Dentinger

   • Terahertz Non Linear Metamaterials

   M.F. Fouloni, D. Yarekhal, T. Crepin, and D. Lippens

   • Niobium SupraMEMS for Reconfigurable Millimeter Wave Filters

   M. Schicke, A. Navarnni, P. Ferrari, T. ZOpf1, F. Wittmann, W. Bedyk, G. Schrag, and K. F. Schuster

6. Oral Session 4 SIS 2, Chairs: Dr. Anthony Kerr & Dr. Karl Schuster

   • A 211-275 GHz Sideband Separating SIS Mixer for APEX

   V. Vassilev, R. Monje, A. Pavolotsky, D. Dochev, D. Henke and V. Belitsky

   • The APEX 345Gfiz/460GETz 7-pixel heterodyne array

   S. Heytninck, R. Güsten, C. Kasetnann, J. Stutzki, K. Jacobs, C.E. Honingh, and U.U. Graf

   • Focal Plane Heterodyne SIS Receiver Array with Photonic LO Injection

   P.G. Huggard, B.N. Ellison, A-L. Fontana, B. Lazareff, and A. Navarrini

   • Performance of the Band 3 (84-116 GHz) receiver for ALMA

   S. Claude, F. Jiang, P.Niranjanan, P. Dindo, D. Erickson, K. Yeung, D. Derdall, D. Duncan, D. Garcia, D. Henke, B. Leckie, M. Pfleger, G. Rodrigues, K. Szeto, P. Welle, I. Wood, K. Caputa, A. Lichtenberger, and S-K. Pan

   • A 385-500GHz Balanced Mixer with a Waveguide Quadrature Hybrid Coupler

   Yasutaka Serizawa, Yutaro Sekimoto, Tetsuya Ito, Wenlei Shan, Toshiaki Kamba, Naohisa Satou, Mamoru Kamikura

   • A 385-500 GHz 2SI3 SIS Mixer Based on a Waveguide Split-Block Coupler

   Mamoru Kamikura, Wenlei Shan, Yu Tomimura, Yutaro Sekimoto, Shin'ichiro Asayama, Naohisa Satou, Yoshizo Iizuka, Tetsuya Ito, Toshiaki Kamba, Yasutaka Serizawa, and Takashi Noguchi

7. Invited Presentation, Frequency Regulation and Management

   • Frequency Regulation and Management

   Anne-Marie Nebes

   • The Specificity Of Scientific Use Of Spectrum.

   André Deschamps

8. Oral Session 5 HEB, Chairs: Dr. Boris Karasik & Dr. Edward Tong

   • Spiral antenna coupled and directly coupled NbN HEB mixers in the frequency range from 1 to 70 THz

   S.N. Maslennikov, M.I. Finkel, S.V. Antipov, S.L. Polyakov, W. Zhang, R. Ozhegov, Yu.B. Vachtomin, S.I. Svechnikov, K.V. Smirnov, Yu .R Korotetskaya, N.S. Kaurova, B.M. Voronov, and G.N. Gol'tsman

   • An HEB cross-bar balanced mixer at 1.5 THz

   A. Skalare, J. Stern

   • IF Impedance and Mixer Gain of Hot-Electron Bolometers and the Perrin-Varmeste Two Temperature Model

   J. W. Kooi, J. J. A. Baselrnans, J. R. Gao, T. M. Klapwijk, M. Hajenius, P. Dieleman, A. Baryshev, and G. de Lange

   • Optimal Cold-Electron Bolometer with a Superconductor-Insulator-Normal Tunnel Junction and an Andreev Contact

   Leonid Kuzmin

   • Can NbN films on 3C-SiC/Si change the IF bandwidth of hot electron bolometer mixers?

   J.R. Gao, M. Hajenius, F.D. Tichelaar, B. Voronov, E. Grishina, T. M. Klapwijk, G. Gol'tsman, and C.A. Zorman

   • MgB2 thin film terahertz mixers

   S. Cherednichenko, V. Drakinskiy

   • Twodimensionally distributed Model for HEB based on Random Phase Transitions

   Harald F. Merkel, Biddut K. Banik, Vladimir Drakinskiy

9. Oral Session 6 Sources, Chairs: Dr. Thomas Crowe & Dr. Didier Lippens

   • Terahertz quantum-cascade lasers as local oscillators

   Qing Hu

   • Phase-locking and Linewidths of a Two-color THz Quantum Cascade Laser

   J.N. Hovenier, A. Baryshevtt, A.J.L. Adam, I. Kašalynas, J.R. Gao, T.O. Klaassen, B.S. Williams, S. Kumar, Q. Hug, J. L. Reno

   • A Photonic mm-Wave Local Oscillator

   Robert Kimberk, Todd Hunter, C.-Y. Edward Tong, and Raymond Blundell

   • Performance Improvements in Low-Noise Oscillators and Power Combiners with Harmonic-Mode InP Gunn Devices

   Heribert Eisele, Ridha Kamona

   • Injection locked self-oscillating mixers for terahertz focal plane arrays

   W.S. Truscott, A.I. Milne, and H. Cantu

   • Multiplier Development for the Upper ALMA Local Oscillator B

   Jeffrey L. Hesler, W.L. Bishop, and Thomas W. Crowe

10. Poster Session 2

    • Design & test of a 380 GHz sub-harmonic mixer using American and European Schottky diodes

    Bertrand Thomas, Byron Alderman, David Matheson and Peter de Maagt

    • A Low Noise Integrated Sub-Harmonic Mixer at 183GHz

    Jean-Marc Rollin, Hui Wang, Bertrand Thomas, Alain Maestrini, and Steven Davies

    • Design of a 400 GHz Schottky Mixer for High-Performance Operation

    José V Sites, Jesus Grajal, and Viktor Krozer

    • Design of Heterostructure Barrier Varactor Frequency Multipliers at Millimeter-wave Bands

    Virginia Bernaldo, Jesfis Grajal, and Josa V. Siles

    • A High Efficiency Multiple-Anode 260-340 GHz Frequency Tripler

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

    • A Design Methodology for Planar Triplers in Coplanar Waveguide on Thick Membranes

    W.S. Truscott, P. Klasmann and R. Sloan

    • Experimental study of the harmonic generators and detectors, based on superlattices in wide frequency range 600-2200GHz.

    D.G. Paveliev, Yu.I. Koschurinov, A.M. Baryshev, W. Jellema, V.M. Ustinov, A.E. Zhukov

    • Resonant terahertz detection in InGaAs/AlInAs and AlGaN/GaN — based nanometric transistors.

    A. El Fatimy, F. Teppe W. Knap, D. Seliuta, G. Valušis, M. Orlov, S. Bollaert, C. Gaquiere, and A. Shchepetov

    • TeraHertz Emission and Detection From Ion-irradiated In_0,53Ga_0,47As Gated at 1.55 µm

    N. Chimot, J. Mangeney, R Crozat, K. Blary, J.F. Lampin

    • Spectral Characterization of a 2.5 THz Multi-Mode Quantum Cascade Laser

    S. G. Pavlov, H.-W. Hübers, H. Richter, A. D. Semenov, A. Tredicucci, R. Köhler, L. Mahler, H. E. Beere, and D. A. Ritchie

    • Micromachined Spatial Filters for Quantum Cascade Lasers

    Abigail Hedden, Patrick Pütz, C. d'Aubigny, Dathon Golish, Christopher Groppi, Christopher Walker, Benjamin Williams, Qing Hu, and John Reno

    • Phase matched frequency mixing between telecom wavelengths and THz radiation in a quantum cascade laser

    S. Dhillon, C. Sirtori, J. Alton, S. Barbieri, A. De Rossi. M. Calligaro, H.E. Beere, and D.A. Ritchie

    • Analysis of the stable two-mode operation of a 4-sections semiconductor laser for THz generation by photomixing

    A. Akwoué Ondo, J. Torres, P. Nouvel, C. Palermo, L. Chusseau, J. Jacquet, M. Thual

    • THz generation by optical rectification and competition with other nonlinear processes

    Z.Y. Zhao, S. Hameau, M. Voos, and J. Tignon

    • Theory and Design of an Edge-Coupled Terahertz Photomixer Source

    Daryoosh Saeedkia and Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

    • Catadioptric Microlenses for Submillimeter and Terahertz Applications

    Biddut K. Banik, Harald F. Merkel, Stellan Jacobsson

    • CFRP Mirror Technology for Submillimeter and Shorter Wavelengths

    Robert C. Romeo and Robert N. Martin

    • CFRP Structures for Astronomy Applications

    Robert N. Martin and Robert C. Romeo

    • Micro-machined Planar THz Optics

    K.-F. Schuster, N. Krebs, Y. Guillaud, F. Mattiocco, M. Kornberg, and A. Poglitsch

    • Characterization of Micromachined Waveguide Hybrids at 350 and 650 GHz

    Axel Murk, Stephan Biber, Thomas Tils, Patrick Pütz, Lorenz-Peter Schmidt, and Niklaus Kämpfer

    • New Standards for Submillimeter Waveguides

    John S. Ward

    • Quasi-Optical Faraday Rotator Design, Construction and Evaluation

    R.I. Hunter, D.A. Robertson, G.M. Smith, P. Goy, S. Caroopen, M. Gross

    • Cross-polarization characterization of GORE-TEX© at ALMA band 9 frequencies

    M. Candotti, A. M. Baryshev, N. A. Trappe, R. Hesper, J. A. Murphy, J. Barkhof

    • Rigorous Analysis and Design of Finline Tapers for High Performance Millimetre and Submillimetre Detectors

    Chris North, Ghassan Yassin and Paul Grimes

    • Spectrometers for (sub)mm radiometer applications

    A. Emrich, S. Andersson, Johan Dahlberg, Torgil Kjellberg, Mikael Krus

    • Atmospheric Opacity Above 1 THz: Evaluation for the ALMA Site and for Laboratory Developments

    Juan R. Pardo, Eugene Serabyn, Jose Cernicharo, and Martina C. Wiedner

    • Terahertz frequency metrology and sensitivity issues in photomixer spectrometer

    L.F. Constantin, L. Aballea, J. Demaison

    • A Vector Beam Measurement System for 211-275 G-1-1z

    O. Nystrom, M. Pantaleev, V. Vassilev, I. Lapkin, and V. Belitsky

    • Detection of the 205 µm [NH] Line from the Carina Nebula

    G.J. Stacey, T.E. Oberst, A. Loehr, T. Nikola, S.C. Parshley, N. F.H. Tothill, J.I. Harnett, A.P. Lane, A.A. Stark, and C.R. Tucker

11. Oral Session 7 Devices, Receivers & Instruments, Chairs: Dr. Heribert Eisele & Dr. Imran Mehdi

    • A Novel 520 to 600 GHz Subharmonic Biasable Mixer

    Erich Schlecht, John Gill, Robert Dengler, Alex Peralta, Peter Siegel, and Imran Mehdi

    • TIP: A Terahertz Interferometer for Planets — A Concept Study

    Goutam Chattopadhyay, John S. Ward, Imran Mehdi, Peter H. Siegel, Paul F. Goldsmith, and Anthony C. S. Readhead

    • A Very Wideband Analog Autocorrelation Spectrometer

    Neal Erickson, Gopal Narayanan, Robert Goeller

    • A Modal and Quantum-Statistical Analysis of Imaging Phased Arrays and Interferometric Phased Arrays.

    Stafford Withington

12. Oral Session 8 Superconductors for Imagers & Detectors, Chairs: Dr. Netty Honish & Dr. Jacob Kooï

    • Development of High-Q Superconducting Resonators for use as Kinetic Inductance Detector

    J.J.A. Baselmans, R. I3arends, S.J.C. Yates, J.N. Hovenier, J,R. Gao, H. Hoevers and T.M. Klapwijk

    • Development of a 585 GHz One-Dimensional Diffusion-Cooled Niobium HEB Mixer Imaging Array Based on the "Reverse-Microscope" Concept

    L. Liu, Q. Xiao, H. Xu, A. W. Lichtenberger, and R. M. Weikle, II

    • Two-Dimensional Terahertz Imaging System Using Hot Electron Bolometer Technology

    Dazhen Gu, Eyal Gerecht, Fernando Rodriguez-Morales, and Sigfrid Yngvesson

    • SuperCam : A 64 pixel superheterodyne camera

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

13. Oral Session 9 THz Spectroscopy & Spectrometers, Chairs: Dr. Neal Erickson & Dr. Wolfgang Wild

    • High resolution Terahertz spectroscopy of species of astrophysical interest

    K. Demyk, L. Aballea, L. F. Constantin

    • Quasi-Optical Characterization of Dielectric and Ferrite Materials

    P. Goy, S. Caroopen, M. Gross, R.I. Hunter, G.M. Smith

    • 550-650 GHz spectrometer development for TELIS

    P. Yagoubov, R. Hoogeveen, M. Torgashin, A. Khudchenko, V. Koshelets, N. Suttiwong, G. Wagner, M. Birk

    • CONDOR - An Astronomical Heterodyne Receiver At 1.25 - 1.5 THZ

    M.C. Wiedner, G. Schmidt, S. Bedorf, F. Bielau, U. Graf, C. E. Honingh, K. Jacobs, P. Muñoz, M. Olbrich, K. Rettenbacher, 0. Siebertz, F. Schmülling, J. Stutzki, B. Vowinkel

    • High Resolution Spectroscopy with a Quantum Cascade Laser at 2.5 THz

    Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers, Sergey G. Pavlov, Heiko Richter, Alexei D. Semenov, Lukas Mahler, Alessandro Tredicucci, Harvey E. Beere, David A. Ritchie

    • 2.8 THz heterodyne receiver based on a surface plasmon quantum cascade laser and a hot electron bolometer mixer

    M. Hajenius, R Khosropanah, J.N. Hovenier, J.R. Gao, T.M. Klapwijk, S. Dhillon, S. Barbieri, P. Filloux, C. Sirtori, D.A. Ritchie, and H.E. Beere

14. Author Index

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