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FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

ON SPACE TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY

April 22-24, 2003

Loews Ventana Canyon Resort

Tucson, Arizona

Please note: When any discrepancies between the Table of Contents and the papers arise, the below information reflects what is found in the papers themselves.

1. Session 1 HEB Mixers I, Chair: Sigfrid Yngvesson

   • Review Of Heb Heterodyne Detectors And Receiver Systems For The Thz Range: Present And Future (Invited talk)

     Sigfrid Yngvesson

   • Noise performance of NbN Hot Electron Bolometer mixers at 2.5 THz and its dependence on the contact resistance.

     J.J.A. Baselmans, M. Hajenius, J.R. Gao, T.M. Klapwijk, P.A.J. de Korte, B. Voronov, and G. Gol'tsman

   • Fabrication and Noise Measurement of NbTiN Hot Electron Bolometer Heterodyne Mixers at THz Frequencies

     P. Khosropanah, S. Bedorf, S. Cherednichenko, V. Drakinskiy, K. Jacobs, H. Merkel, E. Kollberg

   • Comparison of the Noise Performance of NbTiN and NbN Hot Electron Bolometer heterodyne mixers at THz Frequencies

     Harald F. Merkel, Pourya Khosropanah, Sergey Cherednichenko, Erik Kollberg

2. Session 2 SIS Mixers I, Chair: Tony Kerr

   • Superconducting Hot-Electron Bolometer Mixer For Terahertz Heterodyne Receivers

     Alexei D. Semenov, Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers, Heiko Richter, Konstantin Smirnov, Gregory N. Gol'tsman, Natalia Kaurova, Boris M. Voronov

   • Sideband-Separating SIS Mixer For ALMA Band 7, 275-370 GHz

     Stéphane Claude

   • Design Accuracy of the Resonance Frequency for the PCTJ SIS Mixer

     Yasunori Fujii, Ken'ichi Kikuchi, and Junji Inatani

   • Low noise SIS mixer for the band 1.1-1.25 THz of the Herschel space radiotelescope

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

   • Influence Of Junction-Quality And Current Density On HIFI Band 2 Mixer Performance

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

   • All-Nbn SIS Mixers Using A Tuning Circuit With Two Half-Wavelength Distributed Junctions

     Y. Uzawa, A. Kawakami, M. Takeda, and Z. Wang

3. Session 3 Sources I, Chair: John Payne

   • A 1650-1900 GHz Tunable Source

     N.R. Erickson, R.M. Grosslein, J. Wielgus, V. Fath, I. Mehdi, and J. Gill

   • W Band MMIC Power Amplifiers for the Herschel HIFI Instrument

     Robert R. Ferber, Todd C. Gaier, John C. Pearson, Lorene A. Samoska, Mary Wells, April Campbell

   • Broadband Submillimeter Receiver and Source Development

     J.L. Hesler, D.W. Porterfield, W.L. Bishop, D.S. Kurtz, and T.W. Crowe

   • Design and analysis of 500 GHz heterostructure barrier varactor quintuplers

     Mattias Ingvarson, Arne Øistein Olsen, and Jan Stake

   • 1400 — 1900 GHz Local Oscillators for the Herschel Space Observatory

     John Ward, Frank Maiwald, Goutam Chattopadhyay, Erich Schlecht, Alain Maestrini, John Gill, and Imran Mehdi

4. Session 4 Devices, Chair: Art Lichtenberger

   • HgCdTe Photoconductive Mixers for 3-15 Terahertz

     Albert Betz, Rita Boreiko, Yongdong Zhou, Jun Zhao, Yusuf Selamet, Yong Chang, Renganathan Ashokan, Charlie Bucker, and Sivalingam Sivananthan

   • Transferred Substrate Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors For Submillimeter Wave Applications

     Andy Fung, Lorene Samoska, Peter Siegel, Mark Rodwell, Miguel Urteaga, Vamsi Paidi

   • Novel Designs for Submillimeter Subharmonic and Fundamental Schottky Mixers

     Erich Schlecht, John Gill, Peter Siegel, John Oswald, and Imran Mehdi

   • Design, fabrication and testing of semiconductor tunable antenna-coupled intersubband Terahertz (TACIT) detectors

     G. B. Serapiglia, Y. Dora, M. S. Sherwin, M. Hanson, A. C. Gossard, and W. R. McGrath

   • SIR Chip for TELIS

     S.V. Shitov, V.P. Koshelets, P.A. Yagoubov, L.V. Filippenko, R.N. Dmitriev, 0.V. Koryukin, An.B. Ermakov, and R.W.M. Hoogeveen

   • Large RF Bandwidth Waveguide to Thinfilm Microstrip Transitions on Suspended Membrane for use in Silicon Micromachined Mixer blocks at THz Frequencies

     J.W. Kooi, Christian Drouet d'Aubigny, Chris Wa1ker, and Arthur W. Lichtenberger

5. Session 5 Incoherent/Bolometric Detectors, Chair: Harvey Moseley

   • Photon Counting vs Photon Integration at SubMM Waves

     Boris S. Karasik, Andrew V. Sergeev

6. Session 6 Waveguide, Chair: John Papapolymerou

   • Single Chip Beam Combining, Interferometric Detector for Submillimetre-wave Astronomy

     E. Campbell, S. Withington, G. Yassin, C. Y. Tham, S. Wolfe, K. Jacobs

   • Measurements and Simulations of Overmoded Waveguide Components at 70-118 GHz, 220-330 GHz and 610-720 GHz

     G. A. Ediss

   • A Broadband Waveguide Thermal Isolator

     J. L. Hesler, A. R. Kerr, and N. Homer

   • Silicon Laser Micromachining for the Development of Planar Waveguide-Based THz Structures

     Peter Kirby, John Papapolymerou, Christian D' Aubigny, and Chris Walker

   • Design of a Dual Polarization SIS Sideband Separating Receiver based on waveguide OMT for the 275-370 GHz frequency band

     A. Navarrini, M. Carter

   • Symmetric Waveguide Orthomode Junctions

     E.J. Wollack and W. Grammer

7. Session 7 Spectrometers, Chair: Rudolf Schieder

   • Optical Methods for Spectral Analysis of future Heterodyne Instruments

     R.Schieder

   • A Correlator Chip for Spaceborne Radiometry

     Constantin Timoc

8. Session 8 Systems, Chair: Chris Walker

   • Deployment of TREND - A Low-Noise Receiver User Instrument at 1.25 THz to 1.5 THz for AST/RO at the South Pole

     Eyal Gerecht, Sigfrid Yngvesson, John Nicholson, Yan Zhuang, Fernando Rodriguez Morales, Xin Zhao, Dazhen Gu, Richard Zannoni, Michael Coulombe, Jason Dickinson, Thomas Goyette, Bill Gorveatt, Jerry Waldman, Pourya Khosropanah, Christopher Groppi, Abigail Hedden, Dathon Golish, Christopher Walker, Jacob Kooi, Richard Chamberlin, Antony Stark, Christopher Martin, Robert Stupak, Nicholas Tothill, and Adair Lane

   • Heterodyne Array Development at the University of Arizona

     C. Groppi, C. Walker, C. Kulesa, G. Narayanan, K. Jacobs, U. Graf, R. Schieder, J. Kooi

   • TELIS — development of a new balloon borne THz/submm heterodyne limb sounder

     P.L. Yagoubov, R.W.M. Hoogeveen, A.M. Maurellis, U. Mair, M. Krocka, G. Wagner, M. Birk, H.-W. Hübers, H. Richter, A. Semenov, G. Gol'tsman, B. Voronov, V. Koshelets, S. Shitov, B. Ellison, B. Kerridge, D. Matheson, B. Alderman, M. Harman, R. Siddans, J. Reburn

   • Heterodyne Instrumentation Development for the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory

     Jacob W. Kooi, Attila Kovacs, T.G. Phillips, and J. Zmuidzinas

   • CO(9-8) in Orion

     Simon J. E. Radford, Ray Blundell, Scott Paine, Hugh Gibson, Dan Marrone, et al.

   • Quasi-Optics for 640 GHz SIS Receiver of International-Space-Station-Borne Limb-Emission Sounder SMILES

     Masumichi Seta, Axel Murk, Takeshi Manabe, Junji Inatani, Richard Wy1de, Takeshi Miura, Toshiyuki Nishibori, and SMILES Mission Team

   • Meeting the Optical Requirements of Large Focal-Plane Arrays

     Antony A. Stark

9. Session 9 SIS Mixers II, Chairs: Karl Jacobs

   • Influence of Temperature Variations on the Stability of a Submm Wave Receiver

     A. Baryshev, R. Hesper, G. Gerlofsma, M. Kroug, W. Wild

   • Quasiparticie mixing and Josephson electrodynamics in non-uniform parallel junction arrays

     F. Boussaha, M. Salez, Y. Delorme, F. Dauplay, A. Feret, K. Westerberg, B. Lecomte

   • Investigation of the performance of a 700 GHz nline mixer

     P. Grimes, P. Kittara, G. Yassin, S. Withington, and K. Jacobs

   • Measurement Of Gain Compression In SIS Mixer Receivers

     A. R. Kerr, J. Effland, S.-K. Pan, G. Lauria, A. W. Lichtenberger, and R. Groves

   • Investigations into the effect of reflections at the RF and LO ports of an SIS mixer

     Nicholas D. Whyborn

10. Session 10 HEB Mixers II, Chair: Johathan Kawamura

    • Development of NbN Terahertz HEB Mixer Devices and Films

      Eyal Gerecht, Ashok Bhupathiraju, John Nicholson, Dazhen Gu, Yan Zhuang, Fernando Rodriguez Morales, Xin Zhao, Richard Zannoni, and Sigfrid Yngvesson

    • Gain Bandwidth And Noise Temperature Of NbTiN Heb Mixer

      Matvey Finkel, Yuriy Vachtomin, Sergey Antipov, Vladimir Drakinski, Natalia Kaurova, Boris Voronov, and Gregory Gol'tsman

    • A 1.5 THz hot-electron bolometer mixer operated by a planar diode-based local oscillator

      C.-Y. Edward Tong, Denis Meledin, Raymond Blundell, Neal Erickson, Jonathan Kawamura, Imran Mehdi, Gregory Gol'tsman

    • Broadband Millimeter-Wave Bolometric Mixers Based on Ballistic Cooling in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

      Mark Lee, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

    • Bistability In NbN Heb Mixer Devices

      Yan Zhuang, Dazhen Gu and Sigfrid Yngvesson

11. Session 11 Sources II, Chair: Imran Mehdi

    • Heterostructure Barrier Varactor Frequency Triplers to 220 — 325 GHz

      Yiwei Duan, Qun Xiao, Jeffrey L. Hesler, and Thomas W. Crowe

    • THz Range Unipolar Ballistic Tunnel-Emission Transit Time Oscillators

      N.Z. Vagidov, J. East, V.V. Mitin, and G.I. Haddad

    • F-Band (90-140 GHz) Uni-Traveling-Carrier Photodiode Module for a Photonic Local Oscillator

      Hiroshi Ito, Tsuyoshi Ito, Yoshifumi Muramoto, Tomofumi Furuta, and Tadao Ishibashi

    • Optical Far-IR wave Generation - An ESA review study

      B. Leone, V. Krozer, M. Feiginov, H. Roskos, H. Quast, T. Löffler, G. Loata , G. Döhler P. Kiesel, M. Eckardt, A, Schwanhäußer, T. O. Klaassen, P. Lugli

    • Amplitude Noise in a Photomixer Using a UTC-PD in the 100 GHz Band

      T. Noguchi, A. Ueda, H.Iwashita, S. Takano, Y. Sekimoto, M. Ishiguro, T. Ishibashi, H. Ito , and T. Nagatsuma

12. Session 12 Optics, Chair: Eric Mueller

    • Propagating Partially Coherent THz Fields Using Non-Orthogonal Over-Complete Basis Sets

      R.H. Berry, S. Withington, M.P. Hobson, G. Yassin

    • Experimental Verification of Electromagnetic Simulations of a HIFI Mixer Sub-Assembly

      W. Jellema, P. R. Wesselius, S. Withington, G. Yassin, J. A. Murphy, C. O'Sullivan, N. Trappe, T. Peacocke, and B. Leone

    • A Novel Procedure for Designing Band-pass Filters Using FSS Structures

      Ge Wu, Volkert Hansen, Ernst Kreysa, Hans-Peter Gemuend

13. Session 13 Posters HEB Mixers, Chair: Tom Crowe

    • A hot-spot model for membrane-based HEB mixer

      J.Baubert, H. Merkel, M.Salez, P.Khosropanah

    • Noise and Gain Performance of spiral antenna coupled HEB Mixers at 0.7 THz and 2.5 THz.

      K.V. Smimov, Yu.B. Vachtomin, S.V. Antipov, S.N. Maslennikov, N.S. Kaurova, V.N. Drakinsky, B.M. Voronov, G.N. Gol'tsman, A.D. Semenov, H. Richter, H.-W. Hübers

    • Improved NbN Phonon Cooled Hot Electron Bolometer Mixers

      M. Hajenius, J.J.A. Baselmans, J.R. Gao, T.M. Klapwijk, P.A.J. de Korte, B. Voronov, and G. Gol'tsman

    • NbAu Bilayer Hot Electron Bolometer

      H. Merkel, P. Khosropanah, S. Cherednichenko, T. Ottoson, J. Baubert, E. Kollberg

    • Transition Edge Operation of Tantalum Diffusion-Cooled Hot-Electron Bolometers

      Anders Skalare, William R. McGrath, Bruce Bumble, Henry G. Leduc

    • Impedance and Bandwidth Characterization of NbN Hot Electron Bolometric Mixers

      F. Rodriguez-Morales and K.S. Yngvesson

14. Session 13 Posters SIS Mixers, Chair: Tom Crowe

    • Sideband-Separating SIS Mixer at 110GHz for the measurement of atmospheric ozone

      Shin'ichiro Asayama, Takashi Noguchi, and Hideo Ogawa

    • Repeatability and Reliability of the 640 GHz SIS Mixer for JEM/SMILES

      Ken'ichi Kikuchi, Yasunori Fujii, Wen-Lei Shan, and Junji Inatani

    • Development of the HIFI band 3 and 4 mixer units

      G. de Lange, B.D. Jackson, M. Eggens, H. Golstein, W.M. Laauwen, L. de Jong, S. Kikken, C. Pieters, H. Smit, D. Van Nguyen, M. Kroug, T. Zij1stra, T.M. K1apwijk

    • Design of 129-174 GHz SSB SIS mixer for Band 2 of New Generation Receiver of IRAM PdB Interferometer

      A. Navarrini and B. Lazareff

    • Scaled Model Measurement of the Embedding Impedance of a 660-GHz Waveguide SIS Mixer with a 3-Standard De-embedding Method

      W. Zhang, C-.Y. Edward Tong, and S.C. Shi

    • Superconducting Microstrip Line Models At Millimeter And Sub-Millimeter Waves And Their Comparison

      V. Belitsky, C. Risacher, M. Pantaleev, V. Vassilev

15. Session 13 Posters Sources, Chair: Tom Crowe

    • Local Oscillator Systems for (sub)millimetre Spectroscopy

      S. Andersson, A. Emrich, J. Embretsen

    • Equivalent Circuit for Photomixing In Resonant Laser-Assisted Field Emission

      M. J. Hagmann, M. S. Mousa, M. Brugat, E. P. Sheshin, and A. S. Baturin

    • Effect of Finite Spectral Width on Photomixing In Resonant Laser-Assisted Field Emission

      Mark J. Hagmann

    • Terahertz quantum cascade laser based on LO-phonon-scattering assisted depopulation.

      Benjamin S. Williams, Hans Callebaut, Sushil Kumar, and Oing Hu

    • Terahertz Backward Wave Oscillator Development

      Lawrence Ives, David Marsden, Malcom Caplan, Carol Kory, Jeff Neilson

    • Design and operational considerations for robust planar GaAs varactors: A reliability study

      Frank Maiwald, Erich Schlecht, John Ward, Robert Lin, Rosa Leon, John Pearson, and Imran Mehdi

    • A Design Theory for a Terahertz-Frequency Quantum Oscillator that Operates in the Positive Differential Resistance Region

      Dwight Woolard, Peiji Zhao, H. L. Cui

    • A Multi-Subband Design Theory for a Terahertz-Frequency Double-Barrier Quantum-Well Oscillator

      Peiji Zhao and D.L. Woolard

16. Session 13 Posters Devices, Chair: Tom Crowe

    • Beam Lead Fabrication for Submillimeter-wave Circuits Using Vacuum Planarization

      R.B. Bass, J.C. Schultz, A.W. Lichtenberger, J.W. Kooi, C.K. Walker

    • Wide Band Cryogenic IF Amplifiers for ALMA and Herschel Receivers

      Isaac López-Fernández, Carmen Diez, Juan Daniel Gallego, Alberto Barcia

17. Session 13 Posters Incoherent/Bolometer Detectors, Chair: Tom Crowe

    • Investigation of superconducting transition in the molybdenum-copper thin film structure showing the proximity phenomenon with the purpose of constructing TES bolometer

      S.A.Kovtonyuk, A.G.Kovalenko, A.A.Chebotarev, A.N.Vystavkin

18. Session 13 Posters Waveguide, Chair: Tom Crowe

    • Full-Waveguide Band Orthomode Transducer for the 3 mm and 1 mm Bands

      Gopal Narayanan, and Neal Erickson

    • Precision measurements of the properties of thin-film superconducting microstrip lines at 100-500 GHz

      Anastasios Vayonakis, Alexey Goldin, Henry Leduc, Chiyan Luo, Jonas Zmuidzinas

    • Propagation in Lossy and Superconducting Cylindrical Waveguides

      G. Yassin, C.Y. Tham, and S. Withington

19. Session 13 Posters Spectrometers, Chair: Tom Crowe

    • Autocorrelation Spectrometers for (sub)millimetre Spectroscopy

      A. Emrich, S. Andersson, J. Embretsén, J. Dahlberg, L. Landen, C. Tegnander

    • Chip set for autocorrelation spectrometer applications

      L. Landén, J. Dahlberg, A. Emrich

    • THIS - A Quantum-Cascade-Laser pumped Mid-Infrared Heterodyne Receiver

      D. Wirtz, G. Sonnabend, V. Vetterle, M. Olbrich, R. Schieder

20. Session 13 Posters Systems, Chair: Tom Crowe

    • Heterodyne Receiver Requirements For The Single Aperture Far-Infrared (SAFIR) Observatory

      Dominic J. Benford, Jacob W. Kooi

    • Cartridge-type receiver system on ASTE

      Masahiro Sugimoto, Yutaro Sekimoto, Sozo Yokogawa, Takeshi Okuda, Ken'ichi Tatematsu, Takashi Noguchi, Kotaro Kohno, Hideo Ogawa, and Kimihiro Kimura

    • Current Status of the Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory

      Kecheng Xiao, Antony A. Stark, Adair P. Lane, Christopher L. Martin, Wilfred M. Walsh, Christopher K. Walker, Jacob W. Kooi

21. Session 13 Posters Optics, Chair: Tom Crowe

    • Efficient Side-band Ratio Measurement of a Submm Wave Mixer Using a Fourier Transform Spectrometer

      A. Baryshev, R. Hesper, G. Gerlofsma, M. Kroug, W. Wild

    • Transmission and Reflection Characteristics of Slightly Irregular Wire-Grids for Arbitrary Angles of Incidence and Grid Rotation

      Takeshi Manabe and Axel Murk

22. Participants

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