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TWENTY-SECOND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

ON SPACE TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY

April 25-28, 2011

Loews Ventana Canyon Resort

Tucson, Arizona, USA

1. Session 1 Terahertz Systems I, Chair: Christopher Groppi

   • THz Interferometers in Geosynchronous Orbit, - Status and Results

     A. Emrich, E. Ryman, J. Embretsén, A. Carlström, J. Christensen and J. Riesbeck

   • Liquid-Cryogen Free Frontend for a 2.5-THz Heterodyne Receiver

     H.-W. Hübers, H. Richter, S. G. Pavlov, A. D. Semenov, L. Mahler, A. Tredicucci, H. E. Beere, D. A. Ritchie, K. Il'in, and M. Siegel

   • Towards Multi-Pixel Heterodyne Terahertz Receivers

     V. Belitsky, V. Desmaris, D. Dochev, D. Meledin, and A. Pavolotsky

   • NIKA: a Dual Band KIDs Camera

     L. Ferrari, A. Benoit, A. Bideaud, L. J. Swenson, M. Roesch, F.X. De'sert, S. Doyle, A. Endo, A. Cruciani, P. Ade, A.M. Baryshev, J.J.A. Baselmans, O. Bourrion, P. Camus, C. Giordano, C. Hoffmann, S. Leclercq, J. M. Perez, P. Mauskopf, K.F. Schuster, C. Tucker, C. Vescov, and S.J.C. Yates

2. Invited Talk:

   "Millimeter and Submillimeter Observations of Asteroids and Comets With the MIRO Instrument on the Rosetta Spacecraft"

   Dr. Samuel Gulkis, NASA JPL

3. Session 2 Coherent Detectors I, Chair: Jacob Kooi

   • Radiation Mixer Based on the 2DEG in a GaN Heterostructure

     B. S. Karasik, J. J. Gill, T. J. Crawford, I. Mehdi, and A. V. Sergeev

   • Integrated Balanced SIS Mixer at 500 GHz

     M. P. Westig, C. E. Honingh, and K. Jacobs

   • Performance of a Twin-Slot Antenna Coupled NbN Hot Electron Bolometer Mixer at 2.5 THz

     W. Zhang, Jian- R. Gao, M. Hajenius, W. Miao, P. Khosropanah, T. M. Klapwijk, S.-C. Shi, and D. Hayton

   • Nb/Al-AlOx/Nb Junction Properties' Variations Due to Storage and Mounting

     A. Pavolotsky, D. Dochev, and V. Belitsky

4. Session 3 THz Sources I, Chair: Tom Crowe

   • Steady-State and Transient Thermal Analysis of High-Power Planar Schottky Diodes

     A. Y. Tang, E. Schlecht, G. Chattopadhyay, R. Lin, C. Lee, J. Gill, I. Mehdi, and J. Stake

   • Design of a High-Power 1.6 THz Schottky Tripler Using 'On-chip' Power-Combining and Silicon Micromachining

     J. V. Siles, B. Thomas, G. Chattopadhyay, A. Maestrini, C. Lee, E. Schlecht, C. Jung, and I. Mehdi

   • Fundamental-Mode Operation of Superlattice Electronic Devices in D-Band (110-170 GHz)

     H. Eisele, S. P. Khanna, E. H. Linfield, and L. H. Li

   • Power Combined Gallium Nitride Amplifier with 3 Watt Output Power at 87 GHz

     A. Fung, J. Ward, G. Chattopadhyay, R. Lin, L. Samoska, P. Kangaslahti, I. Mehdi, B. Lambrigtsen, P. Goldsmith, M. Micovic, A. Kurdoghlian, K. Shinohara, I. Milosavljevic, and D. H.Chow

   • A 2.5-2.7 THz Room Temperature Electronic Source

     A. Maestrini, I. Mehdi, R. Lin, J. V. Siles, C. Lee, J. Gill, G. Chattopadhyay, E. Schlecht, B. Thomas, and J. Ward

5. Invited Talk:

   "Future Incoherent Detector Arrays"

   Dr. Harvey Moseley, NASA GSFC

6. Session 4 Incoherent Detectors I, Chair: Teunis Klapwijk

   • Development of Lumped Element Kinetic Inductance Detectors for NIKA

     M. Roesch, A. Benoit, A. Bideaud, N. Boudou, M. Calvo, A. Cruciani, S. Doyle, H.G. Leduc, A. Monfardini, L. Swenson, S. Leclercq, P. Mauskopf and K.F. Schuster for the NIKA Collaboration

   • The SPICA-SAFARI Detector System: TES Detector Arrays with Frequency Division Multiplexed SQUID Readout

     B. D. Jackson, P. A. J. de Korte, J. van der Kuur, P. D. Mauskopf, J. Beyer, M. P. Bruijn, A. Cros, J.-R. Gao, D. Griffin, R. den Hartog, M. Kiviranta, G. de Lange, B.-J. van Leeuwen, C. Macculi, L. Ravera, N. Trappe, H. van Weers, and S. Withington

   • A Study on Photon Counting Interferometry in Terahertz Frequencies

     H. Matsuo, T. Matsuo, and I.S. Ohta

   • Optical Characterization at 1.5-3 THz of High Sensitivity TES Detectors Designed for Future Far-Infrared Space Missions

     P. D. Mauskopf, D. Morozov, P. A. R. Ade, D. Griffin, D. Goldie, D. Glowacka, A. Velichko, and S. Withington

7. Poster Session and Reception

   • Kilopixel Superconducting Bolometer Arrays for Near-Space Astrophysics Applications

     D. J. Benford, C. A. Jhabvala, N. S. Jethava, T. M. Miller, S. H. Moseley, E. H. Sharp, J. G. Staguhn, E. J. Wollack, K. D. Irwin, and G. C. Hilton

   • Performance of the First ALMA Band 5 Production Cartridge

     B. Billade, O. Nyström, D. Meledin, E. Sundin, I. Lapkin, M. Fredrixon, V. Desmaris, H. Rashid, M. Strandberg, S.-E. Ferm, H. Wang, H. Xu, M. Obrocka, B. Ellison, A. Pavolotsky, and V. Belitsky

   • Receiver Optics and 1.9 THz HEB Mixers for STO

     M. Brasse, U. U. Graf, C. E. Honingh, K. Jacobs, M. Justen, P. Pütz, M. Schultz, and J. Stutzki

   • Compact Micromachined Infrared Bandpass Filters for Planetary Spectroscopy

     A. D. Brown, S. Aslam, J. A. Chervenak, W. C. Huang, W. Merrell, and M. Quijada

   • Measure the Beam Wavefronts of a Terahertz Source

     M. Cui, J.N. Hovenier, Y. Ren, J.R. Gao, and T.M. Klapwijk

   • Test Facility Development for the SPICA-SAFARI Instrument

     P. Dieleman, B. Vandenbussche, B. M. Swinyard, W. Jellema, M. Ferlet, L. Meinsma, W. M. Laauwen, L. Ferrari, H. Smit, and M. Eggens

   • Development of Planar Schottky Diodes

     V. Drakinskiy, P. Sobis, A.-Y. Tang, T. Bryllert, and J. Stake

   • Design, Fabrication, and Alignment of the SuperCam Telescope Relay Optics

     M. Borden, D. Golish, C. D. d'Aubigny, C. Groppi, J. Kloosterman, T. Cottam, X. Xu, D. Lesser, S. Silva, C. Kulesa, C. Walker, and B. Cuerden

   • Phocus Radiometer Payload

     O. Nyström, T. Ekebrand, C. Emrich, M. Krus, A. Emrich, D. Murtagh, and V. Belitsky

   • Spectrometers for THz Radiometers

     M. Krus, J. Embretsén, A. Emrich, and S. Back-Andersson

   • STEAMR Breadboard Results and Demonstrator Status

     A. Emrich, P.Sobis, J. Embretsén, and K. Kempe

   • ALMA WVR Final Report

     M. Wannerbratt, T. Ekebrand, A. Emrich, P.Sobis, U. Krus, S. Back-Andersson, D. Runesson, and M. Krus

   • Antenna Lens Array for Large Scale M-KIDs Camera

     L. Ferrari, A. M. Baryshev, J.J.A. Baselmans, and S.J.C. Yates

   • Optical Test Facility for SAFARI Bolometers

     L. Ferrari, M.D. Audley, G. D. Lange, J. R. Gao, D. Griffin, G. Keizer, P. Khosropanah, and P. Mauskopf

   • The Supercam 8-pixel Integrated Focal Plane Unit

     C. Groppi, D. Golish, C. Walker, B. Love, C. Kulesa, S. Weinreb, J. Kooi, and A. Lichtenberger

   • The Supercam Local Oscillator Multiplexing Unit

     C. Groppi, D. Golish, B. Love, C. Kulesa, and C. Walker

   • Terahertz Response of YBCO HEB Homodyne Detectors

     A. Hammar, S. Cherednichenko, and S. Bevilacqua

   • YBCO HEB THz mixers

     A. Hammar, S. Cherednichenko, and S. Bevilacqua

   • "32-channel Multi-Chip-Module" The Cryogenic Readout System for Submillimeter/Terahertz Cameras

     Y. Hibi, H. Matsuo, T. Ookawa, H. Nagata, H. Ikeda, and M. Fujiwara

   • 1.1 THz Multi-pixel Heterodyne Receiver for APEX

     N. Hurtado, U. U. Graf, C. E. Honingh, K. Jacobs, M. P. Westig, R. Güsten, and J. Stutzki

   • Development of THz Quantum Cascade Laser as a Local Oscillator for Heterodyne Receivers

     Y. Irimajiri, S. Shiba, N. Sekine, I. Hosako, T. Koyama, T. Yamakura, H. Maezawa, and S. Yamamoto

   • In-Orbit Performance and Current Status of the SMILES Mission

     K. Kikuchi, S. Mizobuchi, T. Nishibori, R. Sato, Y. Irimajiri, S. Ochiai, F. Ohtsubo, K. Mizukoshi, H. Ozeki, T. Manabe, and M. Shiotani

   • Operating of the Superconducting Integrated Receiver Channel of the TELIS Atmospheric Sounder.

     O. S. Kiselev, M. Birk, P. N. Dmitriev, A. B. Ermakov, L. V. Filippenko, H. Golstein, B. van Kuik, A. de Lange, G. D. Lange, A. M. Selig, P. G. Wagner, and V. P. Koshelets

   • Dual-Chip Power Combiner using 300 GHz Tripler with Diamond Heat-Spreaders

     C. Lee, L. Samoska, R. Lin, B. Thomas, A. Maestrini, and I. Mehdi

   • Initial Terahertz Probing of Carbon Nanofiber Composite Coatings as Potential Quasi-Optical THz Shielding and Attenuation Devices

     L. Liu, T. Wang, A. Biswas, and C. M. Megaridis

   • Investigation of a Simple Truncated Waveguide Phase Shifter

     N.P. Lourie, D.T. Chuss, R.M. Henry, and E.J. Wollack

   • Advances Towards an ALMA Band-1 Receiver

     F.P. Mena, N. Reyes, P. Zorzi, C. Jarufe, J. Pizarro, L. Bronfman, and J. May

   • Test of a Waveguide Orthomode Transducer for the 385-500 GHz Band

     A. Navarrini, C. Groppi, R. Lin, and G. Chattopadhyay

   • TES Bolometers with High-Frequency Readout Circuit

     S. V. Shitov

   • Status of ALMA Band 7 Cartridge Production

     S. Mahieu, D. Maier, B. Lazareff, A. Navarrini, G. Celestin, J. Chalain, D. Geoffroy, F. Laslaz, and G. Perrin

   • A 230 GHz Unilateral Finline Mixer on Silicon Substrate

     Y. Zhou, P. Grimes, G. Yassin, J. Leech, K. Jacobs, and P. Puetz

   • 3.5 THz Quantum Cascade Laser at 70 K as Local Oscillator

     Y. Ren, P.J. de Visser, J.N. Hovenier, W. Zhang, J.R. Gao, T.M. Klapwijk, S.C. Shi, T-Y. Kao, S. Kumar, Q. Hu, and J. L. Reno

8. Invited Talk:

   "The South Pole Telescope: Operations and Early Results"

   Dr. Antony Stark, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA

9. Session 5 Incoherent Detectors II, Chair: Harvey Moseley

   • Doped Lead Telluride-Based Alloys - a New Type of Sensitive Detectors of Terahertz Radiation

     D.E. Dolzhenko, A.V. Nicorici, L.I. Ryabova, and D.R. Khokhlov

   • Optical Sensitivity Measurements in Nano-HEB Detectors

     B. S. Karasik and R. Cantor

   • Low Noise Transition Edge Sensor (TES) for the SAFARI Instrument on SPICA

     P. Khosropanah, R.A. Hijmering, M. Ridder, M.A. Lindeman, L. Gottardi, M. Bruijn, J. van der Kuur, P.A.J. de Korte, J.R. Gao, and H. Hoevers

   • Optical Characterization of High Sensitivity TES Detectors Designed for the SPICA/SAFARI 30-60 µm Channel

     D. Morozov, P. D. Mauskopf, P. A. R. Ade, D. Griffin, J.R. Gao, H. F. C. Hoevers, P. Khosropanah, R. Hijmering, M. Ridder, and M. Bruijn

10. Session 6 Coherent Detectors II, Chair: Patrick Puetz

    • Scalable Terahertz-Frequency HEB Mixers

      F. Boussaha, J. Kawamura, J. Stern, A. Skalare, and V. White

    • A Quasi-Optical NbN Mixer with 800K DSB Noise Temperature at 2.5 THz

      Y. Delorme, R. Lefèvre, W. Miao, A. Féret, W. Zhang, T. Vacelet,F. Dauplay, L. Pelay, J. Spatazza, M. B. Trung, J-M. Krieg, Y.Jin, P. Khosropanah, J. R. Gao, and S. C. Shi

    • 560 GHz, 664 GHz and 1.2 THz Schottky Based MMIC Sub-Harmonic Mixers for Planetary Atmospheric Remote Sensing and FMCW radar

      B. Thomas, J. Siles, J. Gill, C. Lee, K. Cooper, A. Maestrini, S. Gulkis and I. Mehdi

    • First Results of the Sideband-Separating Mixer for ALMA Band 9 Upgrade

      A. Khudchenko, R. Hesper, A. Baryshev, F. P. Mena, G. Gerlofma, T. Zijlstra, T. M. Klapwijk, J. W. Kooi, and M. Spaans

    • High Sensitivity Waveguide HEB Mixers at 2.5 THz

      P. Pütz, M. Brasse, J. R. Gao, K. Jacobs, M. Justen, P. Khosropanah, W. Miao, M. Schultz, S. C. Shi, W. Zhang, and C. E. Honingh

11. Invited Talk:

    "CCAT"

    Dr. Jonas Zmuidzinas, Caltech/JPL

12. Session 7 Optics and Components, Chair: Christian dAubigny

    • The Experimental Demonstration of a Low-Cost 37-Horn Focal-Plane Array Consisting of Smooth-Walled Multiple-Flare Angle Horns Fabricated by Direct Drilling

      J. Leech, B. K. Tan, G. Yassin, P. Kittara, and S. Wangsuya

    • Effect of Phase Slippage and Higher Order Beam Modes in a 340GHz Focal Plane Array Optics

      A. Murk, M. Whale, and M. Renker

    • VNA Measurements in the 0.75-1.1 THz Band

      J.L. Hesler, K. Hui, B. Foley, S. Durant, and T.W. Crowe

13. Session 8 THz Systems II, Chair: Victor Belitsky

    • A Multibeam 2SB SIS Receiver at 3mm Wavelength

      J. Yang, W.L. Shan, S.C. Shi, Q.J. Yao, Y.X. Zuo, Z.H. Lin, S.H. Chen, Q.G. Huang, X.G. Zhang, W.Y. Duan, A.Q. Cao, S. Li, Z.Q. Li, J.Q. Zhong, J. Liu, and K. Liu

14. Invited Talk:

    "SOFIA"

    Dr. Erick Young

15. Session 8 continued

    • Development of the 1.3-1.5 THz Band Superconducting HEB Mixer Receivers for ASTE 10 m Telescope

      T. Shiino, L. Jiang, R. Furuya, T. Yamaguchi, S. Shiba, T. Sakai, N.Sakai, Y. Watanabe, O. Ohguchi, H. Maezawa, T. Yamakura, Y. Irimajiri, and S. Yamamoto

    • Temperature and Frequency Resolution of a 3.5 THz Heterodyne Spectrometer Using a Quantum Cascade Laser

      Y. Ren, J.N. Hovenier, J.R. Gao, T.M. Klapwijk, S.C. Shi, T-Y. Kao, Q. Hu, and J. L. Reno

    • Antenna Coupled MKID Test Camera on APEX Telescope: On Sky Perfomace

      A.M. Baryshev, J.J.A. Baselmans, A. Endo, S.J.C. Yates, L. Ferrari, R. Guesten, S. Heyminck, T. Klein, B. Klein, L. Esteras, S. Hoohgurtel, A. Weiss, M. Schuller, and T.M. Klapwijk

    • The Kilopixel Array Pathfinder Project (KAPPa): A 16 pixel 660 GHz Pathfinder Instrument with an Integrated Heterodyne Focal Plane Detector

      C. Groppi, C. Wheeler, H. Mani, S. Weinreb, D. Russell, J. Kooi, A. Lichtenberger, and C. Walker

16. Invited Talk:

    "THz Astronomy, Past, Present and Future,"

    Dr. Thijs de Graaw, ALMA

17. Invited Talk:

    "Exploring the Terahertz Universe: Capabilities and Early Science Results of the Herschel Space Observatory"

    Paul Goldsmith, NASA JPL

18. Session 9 THz Systems III, Chair: Andrey Baryshev

    • The Stratospheric THz Observatory (STO): Preparations for Science Flight

      C. Walker, C. Kulesa, J. Kloosterman, T. Cottam, C. Groppi, P. Bernasconi, H. Eaton, N. Rolander, B. Carkhuff, S. Hechtman, J. Gottlieb, D. Neufeld, C. Lisse, A. Stark, D. Hollenbach, J. Kawamura, P. Goldsmith, W. Langer, H. Yorke, J. Sterne, A. Skalare, I. Mehdi, S. Weinreb, J. Kooi, J. Stutzski, U. Graf, C. Honingh, P. Puetz, C. Martin, D. Lesser, and M. Wolfire

    • A Progress Update on Supercam: A 345 GHz, 64-pixel Heterodyne Imaging Spectrometer

      J. Kloosterman, C. Groppiy, C. Kulesa, C. Walker, T. Cottam, E. Liggett, D. Lesser, M. Borden, P. Schickling, D. Golish, C. d'Aubigny, S. Weinreb, G. Jonesz, J. Bardenz, H. Maniy, T. K. J. Kooiz, A. Lichtenberger, T. Cecil, P. Puetz, G. Narayanan, A. Heddenyy, and X. Xu

    • HEAT: The High Elevation Antarctic Terahertz Telescope

      C. Kulesa, C. Walker, A. Young, J. Storey, and M. Ashley

    • Balanced Receiver Development for the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory

      J. W. Kooi, R. A. Chamberlin, R. Monje, B. Force, D. Miller, and T. G. Phillips

    • First Results from GREAT on SOFIA

      Jurgen Stutzki

19. Session 10 Coherent Detectors III, Chair: Gene Lauria

    • Next Generation of Hot-Electron Bolometer Mixers for Future Heterodyne Missions

      S. Ryabchun, M. Finkel, I. Tretyakov, A. Maslennikova, N. Kaurova, B. Voronov, and G. Gol'tsman

    • Performance of a 700 GHz Unilateral Finline SIS Mixer

      B.-K. Tan, G. Yassin, P. Grimes, K. Jacobs, and C. Groppi

    • 670 GHz Schottky Diode Based Subharmonic Mixer with CPW Circuits and 70 GHz IF

      G. Chattopadhyay, E. Schlecht, C. Lee, J. Gill, R. Lin, S. Sin, I. Mehdi, W. Deal, K. K. Loi, P. Nam, and B. Rodriguez

    • Cryogenic MMIC Low Noise Amplifiers for W-Band and Beyond

      L. A. Samoska, S. Church, K. Cleary, A. Fung, T. C. Gaier, P. Kangaslahti, R. Lai, J. M. Lau, G. Mei, R. Reeves, M. M. Sieth, and P. Voll

20. Invited Talk:

    "THz Transistors"

    Bill Deal, Northrop Grumman Corporation

21. Session 10 continued

    • Upgrade of EMIR's Band 3 and Band 4 Mixers

      D. Maier, J. Reverdy, D. Billon-Pierron, and A. Barbier

    • A Low VSWR 340 GHz 2SB Schottky Receiver for Earth Observation Applications

      P. J. Sobis, A. Emrich, and J. Stake

22. Session 11 THz sources II, Chair: Imran Mehdi

    • Frequency Locking of a 3.5 THz Quantum Cascade Laser Using a Gas Cell

      Y. Ren, J.N. Hovenier, M. Cui, D.J. Hayton, J.R. Gao, T.M. Klapwijk, S.C. Shi, T-Y. Kao, Q. Hu, and J. L. Reno

    • High Power Room Temperature, Compact, Narrow Line THz Source as a Local Oscillator for THz Receivers

      M. Scheller, J. Yarborough, A. Young, J. Moloney, C. d'Aubigny, M. Fallahi, M. Koch, S. Koch, and C. Walker

    • Solid-State LO Sources for Greater than 2THz

      T.W. Crowe, J.L. Hesler, S.A. Retzloff, C. Pouzou, and G.S. Schoenthal

    • Toward a Terahertz Local Oscillator for SOFIA Based on a Quantum-Cascade Laser

      H. Richter, S. G. Pavlov, A. D. Semenov, M. Wienold, L. Schrottke, M. Giehler, R. Hey, H. T. Grahn, and H.-W. Hübers

    • Verification of Spectral Purity in the HIFI Local Oscillator

      J. Pearson, D. Teyssier, F. Maiwald, J. Ward, R. Lin, I. Mehdi, J. Kooi, T. Klein, C. Leinz, W. Jellema, and C. Risacher

23. Session 12 Components and Optics II, Chair: Christian dAubigny

    • Characterizing the Full Spatial Optical Behaviour of Power Detectors Using an Interferometric Technique

      C. N. Thomas and S. Withington

    • Development of Silicon Based Integrated Receivers

      C. Junga, B. Thomasa,b, C. Leea, A. Peraltaa, G. Chattopadhyaya, J. Gilla, R. Lina, and I. Mehdia

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