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TWENTY-EIGTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

ON SPACE TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY

March 13-15, 2017

Cologne, Germany

1. Session M1 Receivers 1, Chair: Edward Tong

   • The upGREAT THz Heterodyne Arrays for SOFIA: 1.9 THz and 4.7 THz First Results

     C. Risacher

   • Demonstration and Stabilization of a 2x4 HEB Array Receiver at 1.4 THz Based on a Fourier Phase Grating Local Oscillator

     J. R. Silva, X. liu, B. Mirzaei, Y. C. Luo, D. J. Hayton, J. R. Gao, C. Groppi

   • The Ice Cloud Imager Front End Receivers Onboard MetOp-SG satellite - Preliminary Design and Results

     B. Thomas, M. Brandt, J. Goliasch, G. Sonnabend, T. Stangier, E. Orlandi, H. Gibson, W. Bauer, K. Lichius, A. Busch, R. Henneberger, A. Walber, C. Schmöller, S. Rea, K. Parow-Souchon, H. Wang, M. Henry, B. Moyna, B. Ellison, A. Andres, M. Bergada, N. Alcaraz, R. Gonzalez, M. Gotsmann, and U. Klein

   • Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory 2016, Sub-orbital flight from McMurdo, Antarctica

     A. Young, C. Walker, C. Kulesa, P. Bernasconi, R. Dominguez, J. Siles, D. Hayton, J. R. Gao, W. Peters, P. Goldsmith

2. Session M2 Mixers & Backends, Chair: Christopher Groppi

   • A High-Performance 650GHz Sideband-Separating Mixer - Design and Results

     R. Hesper, A. Khudchenko, A. M. Baryshev, J. Barkhof, and F. P. Mena

   • 67-116 GHz Receiver Development for ALMA Band 2+3

     P. Yagoubov, A. Gonzalez, V. Tapia, N. Reyes, F.P. Mena, R. Nesti, F. Cuttaia, S. Ricciardi, F. Villa, H. Wang, B. Ellison, G. Fuller, D. George, D. Cuadrado-Calle, I. Lapkin, M. Fredrixon, V. Belitsky

   • Achieving Ultra-High Sideband Separation in Millimeter and Sub-Millimeter Receivers

     R. Finger, R. Rodríguez, A. Alvear, F. P. Mena, R. Fuentes, F. Curotto, A. Baryshev, A. Kudchenko, R. Hesper, J. B. and L. Bronfman

   • Back-Ends for THz Systems: Fast Fourier Transform Spectrometer

     B. Klein, S. Hochgürtel, I. Krämer, A. Bell, K. Meyer, and R. Güsten

3. Invited Talk 1, Chair: Imran Mehdi

   • SOFIA, the First Three Years of Full Operation

     A. Krabbe

4. Session M3 Space & Calibration, Chair: Andrey Baryshev

   • The Far Infrared Spectroscopic Explorer: Probing the Lifecycle of the ISM in the Universe

     D. Rigopoulou, B. Ellison, M. Caldwell, G. Yassin, M. Wiedner, V. Ossenkopf-Okada and the FIRSPEX Consortium

   • Spaceborne Superconducting Sounder (SMILES-2) for Upper-Atmosphere Observation

     S. Ochiai, P. Baron, Y. Uzawa, Y. Irimajiri, T. Nishibori, M. Suzuki, T. Manabe, H. Maezawa, A. Mizuno, T. Nagahama, and M. Shiotani

   • RF and Thermal Aspects of the Ground Calibration System for the Microwave Sounder Instrument

     M. Henry, F. Cahill, R. Green, P. G. Huggard, B. Ellison, K. Ostoljic, P. Henshall, J. Mann, T. Brooke, D. Peters, D. Smith, A. Caldwell, G. Hutchinson, M. Winser, G. Tennant, P. Campbell, and V. Kangas

   • Development of Calibration Targets for MetOp-SG Microwave Instruments

     A. Schröder, A. Murk, R. Wylde, K. Jacob, M. Winser, M. B. Pujades, and V. Kangas

   • 165-229 GHz Front End Receivers for the Microwave Sounder and Microwave Imager Instruments Onboard MetOp-SG Satellites - Preliminary Design and Results

     S. Rea, B. Moyna, K. Parow-Souchon, M. Henry, H. Wang, M. Oldfield, N. Brewster, P. Hunyor, M. Merritt, R. Green, D. Smith, B. Davis, A. Obeed, D. Klugmann, M. Phillips, M. Beardsley, J. Hampton, B. Ellison, C. Howe, G. Burton, A. Marshall, B. Thomas, M. Brandt, M. Philipp, G. Sonnabend, T. Stangier, R. Hammett, T. Decoopman, V. Kangas, S. D'Addio, P. Piironen

5. Poster Session

   • Design of Waveguide Coupled MKID Detectors

     F. Blauth, K. Jacobs, C. E. Honingh

   • Design of Simply Structured Metamaterial Filters at Sub-THz Frequencies

     J. Böhm, K. Jacobs and C. E. Honingh

   • 1.9 THz Balanced Superconducting Hot Electron Bolometer Mixers Fully Integrated on Chip

     S. Fathi, K. Jacobs, M. Schultz, P. Pütz, D. Büchel, S. Selig, C. E. Honingh

   • Schottky Components for ESA MetOp SG Space Mission

     O. Cojocari, I. Oprea, M. Rickes, M. Hoefle

   • Design and Optimization of Micro-patterned Quasi-optical Impedance Transformers

     J. A. Connors, C.-Y. E. Tong, P. K. Grimes and S. N. Paine

   • Micro-Machined Integrated Waveguide Transformers in THz Pickett-Potter Feedhorn Blocks

     K. K. Davis, J. Kloosterman, C. Groppi, J. Kawamura, and M. Underhill

   • The SAFARI Grating Spectrometer for SPICA

     G. de Lange, P. Roelfsema, H. Shibai

   • Investigation Into Possible Planar Heterodyne Receiver Arrays With Large (n?100) Number of Pixels

     D. Delfini, M. Wiedner, M. Casaletti, J. Sarrazin, Y. Delorme and H. Gibson

   • Spectral Domain Simulation of SIS Frequency Multiplication

     J. D. Garrett, H. Rashid, V. Desmaris, A. Pavolotsky, V. Belitsky, and G. Yassin

   • Wideband Waveguide Power Combiner for ALMA Band 7+8 (275-500 GHz) Local Oscillator

     A. Gonzalez, T. Kojima, K. Kaneko and S. Asayama

   • Modelling Proximity Effects in X-ray Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) for Space-Based Applications

     R. C. Harwin, D. J. Goldie and S. Withington

   • A Smooth Walled Four Pixel Feed Horn Array Operating at 1.4 THz

     A. Hector, A. V. Trifonov, E. Tong, P. Grimes, and G. Yassin

   • Evaluation of Aperture Efficiency By Using Ray-Tracing Software in Designing a Wide Field-of-View Telescope

     H. Imada, M. Nagai

   • Simultaneous Phase-Locking of Two THz-QCLs Using an HEBM and a Comb Generator

     Y. Irimajiri, I. Morohashi, M. Kumagai, S. Ochiai, A. Kawakami, S. Nagano, Y. Uzawa, and I. Hosako

   • Development of Quantum Cascade Lasers at 2.7 THz for Heterodyne Detection

     F. Joint, T. Vacelet, G. Gay, Y. Delorme, R. Colombelli

   • A 4.745 THz Local Oscillator for the upGREAT Receiver

     M. Justen, U. U. Graf, L. Bosco, K. Otani, J. Faist, and J. Stutzki

   • Superconducting Diamond Films As Perspective Material for Direct THz Detectors

     N. Titova, A. Kardakova, N. Tovpeko, S. Ryabchun, S. Mandal, D. Morozov, G. M. Klemencic, S. R. Giblin, O. A. Williams, G. N. Goltsman

   • Measurement of THz Performance of Plasmonic Absorbers Made of Bulk Aluminum

     V. Janonis, S. Tumenas, S. Indrisiunas, B. Voisiat, G. Raciukaitis, and I. Kasalynas

   • Study of Mid Infrared Hot Electron Bolometer Mixers

     A. Kawakami, H. Shimakage, J. Horikawa, M. Hyodo, S. Saito, S. Tanaka, and Y. Uzawa

   • Performance of SIS Mixers for Upgrade of CHAMP+ 7-pixel Arrays

     A. Khudchenko, A. M. Baryshev, R. Hesper, M. E. Bekema, R. de H. Stijkel, J. Barkhof, D. van Nguyen, V. P. Koshelets, P. Dmitriev, M. Fominsky, K. Rudakov, S. Heyminck and R. Güsten

   • The Advanced Microwave Radiometer - Climate Quality (AMR-C) Instrument for Sentinel-6

     J. L. Kloosterman, S. Brown, T. Koch, N. Vo, F. Nicaise, E. Schlecht, M. Bloom, L. Milligan, K. S. Tripp, P. Kangaslahti, I. Ramos, S. Statham, A. Skalare, R. Cofield, F. Maiwald

   • Performance of a Wide IF SIS-Mixer-Amplifier Module for ALMA Band 8 (385-500 GHz)

     T. Kojima, M. Kroug, K. Uemizu, Y. Niizeki, H. Takahashi, Y. Uzawa

   • Material Study for a THz SIS Mixer

     M. Kroug, T. Kojima, K. Makise, Y. Uzawa

   • A Terahertz Time-Domain Reflectometer

     B. Lap, A. Khudchenko, R. Hesper, A. Baryshev

   • Feasibility Studies on Photon Counting Terahertz Interferometry

     H. Matsuo, H. Ezawa, H. Kiuchi, M. Honma, Y. Murata

   • Dielectric Deposition for Tuning the Frequency of THz Quantum Cascade Lasers

     B. Mirzaei, D. J. Hayton, D. Thoen, J. R. Gao, T. Y. Kao, Q. Hu and J. L. Reno

   • 4 and 8-pixel THz Fourier Phase Gratings

     B. Mirzaei, J. R. G. Silva, Y. C. Luo, X. X. Liu, L. Wei, D. J. Hayton, J. R. Gao, and C. Groppi

   • Design of an Optical Beam Combiner for Dual-Frequency Observation with ALMA

     D. Montofré, A. Baryshev, R. Hesper and F. P. Mena

   • As Grown Ultra-Thin MgB2 Films for Superconducting Detectors

     E. Novoselov and S. Cherednichenko

   • InGaAs Schottky Technology for THz Mixers

     D. Pardo, H. Wang, H. Sanghera, B. Alderman&, B. Ellison, P. Huggard, and J. Grajal

   • Frequency Triplers at 94 GHz and 300 GHz for Millimeter-Wave Radars

     C. G. Pérez-Moreno and J. Grajal

   • A Cryogenic Solid State LO Source at 1.9THz

     N. Reyes, R. Güsten, U. Graf, C. Risacher, O. Ricken

   • A 211-275 GHz Receiver Prototype

     K. Rudakov, P. Dmitriev, A. Baryshev, A. Khudchenko, R. Hesper, O. Kiselev, V. Koshelets

   • AC-Biased Superconducting NbN Hot-Electron Bolometer for Frequency-Domain Multiplexing

     S. V. Seliverstov, A. A. Rusova, N. S. Kaurova, B. M. Voronov and G. N. Goltsman

   • Design and Fabrication of a Dual-Polarization, Balanced SIS Mixer Integrated Circuit

     W. Shan, S. Ezaki, K. Kaneko, M. Kroug, A. Gonzalez, T. Kojima, Y. Fujii, S. Asayama, T. Noguchi

   • Design of Large-Band Room-Temperature On-Chip Diplexed Schottky Receivers for Planetary Science

     J. V. Siles, C. Lee and I. Mehdi

   • Millimetron Space Observatory

     A. Smirnov, Th. de Graauw, A. Baryshev, P. de Bernardis, S. Likhachev, E. Golubev, S. Pilipenko, T. Kosmovich and N. Kardashev

   • Cryogenic IF Balanced LNAs Based on Superconducting Hybrids for Wideband 2SB THz Receivers

     E. Sundin, A. Ermakov, V. Desmaris, H. Rashid, D. Meledin, M. Bylund and V. Belitsky

   • An 8-Pixel Compact Focal Plane Array With Integrated LO Distribution Network

     B.-K. Tan, and G. Yassin

   • An All Solid-State Receiver at 2 THz for Atmospheric Sounding

     J. Treuttel, E. Schlecht, C. Lee, J-V. Siles, D. Hayton, R.Lin, D. W. and I. Mehdi

   • Theoretical Consideration of SIS Up-Converters for Frequency Division Multiplexing

     Y. Uzawa, W. Shan, T. Kojima, A. Gonzalez, and M. Kroug

   • Pre-Prototype ALMA Band 2+3 Down-Converter & Local Oscillator System

     H. Wang, B. Ellison, E.-M. Butroid, GA. Fuller, D. George, D. Cuadrado-Calle, P. Yagoubov

   • Noise Temperature of a Wideband Superconducting HEB Mixer

     K. Zhou, D. Wang, W. Miao, W. Zhang, Y. Delorme and S. Shi

   • GREAT's Internal Beam Scanner

     U. U. Graf

   • Resonant Modes in Parallel Josephson Junction Arrays for Submm Oscillator Applications

     F. Boussaha, J-G. Caputo, C. Chaumont, A. Féret, and T. Vacelet

6. Invited Talk 2, Chair: Gregory Goltsman

   • Engineering the Physics of Superconducting Hot-Electron Bolometer Mixers

     T. Klapwijk

7. Session T1 Superconductor Devices, Chair: Sergey Cherednichenko

   • THz Heterodyne Sensors Using Superconducting MgB2

     B. S. Karasik, D. Cunnane, N. Acharya, W. K. Withanage, X. Xi

   • Shot Noise in NbN/AlN/NbN Superconducting Tunneling Junctions

     D. Liu, J. Hu, M. Yao, J. Li, and S. Shi

   • The Specific Capacitance of Nb/Al-AlOx/Nb SIS Junctions With Extremely Low RnA Product

     P. Y. Aghdam, H. Rashid, A. Pavolotsky, V. Desmaris, V. Belitsky

   • Titanium Nitride for Kinetic-Inductance Detectors: A Problematic Material or an Engineering Opportunity?

     E. F. C. Driessen

8. Session T2 HEB Device Development, Chair: Boris Karasik

   • MgB₂ THz HEB Mixer With an 11GHz Bandwidth

     C. Risacher, R. Güsten, J. Stutzki, H.-W. Hübers, D. Büchel, U. Graf, M. Greiner-Baer, S. Heyminck, C.E. Honingh, K. Jacobs, B. Klein, P. Pütz, H. Richter, N. Rothbart, O. Ricken

   • Gain Bandwidth of NbN HEB Mixers on GaN Buffer Layer Operating at 2 THz Local Oscillator Frequency

     S. Antipov, A. Trifonov, S. Krause, D. Meledin, V. Desmaris, V. Belitsky, and G. Gol'tsman

   • Design of a Wideband Balanced Waveguide HEB Mixer Employing a GaN Buffer-Layer for the 1-1.5 THz Band

     S. Krause, D. Meledin, V. Desmaris, V. Belitsky

   • MgB2 THz HEB Mixer Operation From 5K Till 20K

     E. Novoselov, S. Cherednichenko

9. Session T3 Receivers 2, Chair: Jacob Kooi

   • The wSMA Receivers - a New Wideband Receiver System for the Submillimeter Array

     P. K. Grimes, R. Blundell, S. Paine, J. Test, C-Y. E. Tong, R. W. Wilson, and L. Zeng

   • NOEMA Receivers: Upgrade for Simultaneous Dual-Band Observations

     A.-L. Fontana, D. Maier, J. Reverdy, M. Parioleau, M. Rival and V. Jubard

   • A Cartridge-Type Multi-Pixel Receiver for the 1.5 THz Frequency Band of GLT

     Y.-R. Huang, C.-P. Chiu, H.-H. Chang, C.-L. Wang, H.-W. Chang, and M.-J. Wang

   • 4GREAT: A Multiband Extension of GREAT From 490 GHz to 2.7 THz

     C. A. Durán, R. Güsten, C. Risacher, O. Ricken, S. Heyminck, U. U. Graf, C. E. Honingh, K. Jacobs, P. Pütz, G. de Lange, D. Lis, Y. Delorme, H.-J. Wunsch, A. Görlitz, A. Schmitz, B. Klein, A. Bell

   • Results from the Kilopixel Array Pathfinder Project (KAPPa): a 6mm × 6mm 650 GHz Heterodyne Mixer Pixel With Integrated SiGe LNA and Permanent Magnet

     C. Groppi, C. Wheeler, H. Mani, K. Davis, M. Underhill, M. Neric, S. Weinreb, D. Russell, J. Kooi, A. Lichtenberger, C. Kulesa

10. Session T4 Supra-THz Mixers, Chair: Sheng-Cai Shi

    • Development of a 16-pixel monolithic 1.9 THz Superconducting Waveguide HEB Mixer

      J. Kawamura, J. Kloosterman, J. Siles, F. Boussaha, B. Bumble, V. White, I. Mehdi, C. Lee, D. Russell, C. Groppi, and K. Davis

    • 4.7 THz Flight Mixers for upGREAT

      P. Pütz, K. Jacobs, M. Schultz, S. Fathi, M. Justen, C. E. Honingh, and J. Stutzki

    • 4-Pixel Heterodyne Receiver at 1.9 THz Using a CMOS Spectrometer

      J. L. Kloosterman, J. H. Kawamura, A. J. Tang, R. Kim, J. Siles, F. Boussaha, B. Bumble, C. Lee, A. Peralta, R. Lin, I. Mehdi

    • Performance of NbN and NbTiN HEB Waveguide Mixers for GREAT and upGREAT

      D. Büchel, K. Jacobs, P. Pütz, M. Schultz, C. E. Honingh, and J. Stutzki

    • Silicon Micromachined Integrated 4-Pixel Heterodyne Receiver at 1.9 THz

      G. Chattopadhyay, M. Alonso-delPino, T. Reck, C. Jung-Kubiak, and C. Lee

11. Invited Talk 3, Chair: Netty Honingh

    • Application of Terahertz Technologies in Laboratory Astrophysics

      S. Schlemmer

12. Session W1 MKID, Chair: Karl Jacobs

    • Performance and Surface Wave Reduction in Large Monolithic Kinetic Inductance Detector Arrays

      A. M. Baryshev, S. J. C. Yates, O. Yurduseven, J. Bueno, A. Endo, L. Ferrari, W. Jellema, N. Llombart, V. Murugesan, K. K. Davis, D. J. Thoen, S. Heyminck, R. Guesten, J. J. A. Baselmans

    • A Fast Machine Learning Based Algorithm for MKID Readout Power Tuning

      R. H. Dodkins, K. O'Brien, N. Thatte, S. Mahashabde, N. Fruitwala, S. Meeker, A. Walter, P. Szypryt and B. Mazin

    • The Effects of Changes in Bath Temperature on Kinetic Inductance Detectors

      T. Guruswamy, C. N. Thomas, S. Withington, D. J. Goldie

    • Photon-Counting With KID Resonators for THz/Submillimeter Space Spectroscopy

      O. Noroozian, E. M. Barrentine, T. R. Stevenson, A. D. Brown, V. Mikula, E. J. Wollack, K. U-Yen, S. H. Moseley

13. Session W2 Optics & Waveguide, Chair: Ghassan Yassin

    • Compact Diffractive Optics for THz Imaging

      L. Minkevicius, S. Indrisiunas, R. Sniaukas, G. Raciukaitis, V. Janonis, V. Tamosiunas, I. Kasalynas, G. Valusis

    • Complex Beam Mapping of Large MKID Focal Plane Arrays

      K. K. Davis, S. J. C. Yates, W. Jellema, R. Hesper, J. J. A. Baselmans, C. Groppi, L. Ferrari, K. Kohno, and A. Baryshev

    • A Spline-Profile Diagonal Horn With Low Cross Polarization and Sidelobes, Suitable for THz Splitblock Machining

      H. J. Gibson, B. Thomas, M. Warnke, A. Maestrini, P. de Maagt

    • Design and Measurement of a Waveguide Probe Based WR3.4 Optically Controlled Modulator

      J. A. Connors, C.-Y. E. Tong, P. K. Grimes, A. Gebreyohannes and L. Liu

14. Session W3 Sources, Chair: Jiang-Rong Gao

    • Ultra-Compact THz Multi-Pixel Local Oscillator Systems for Balloon-Borne, Airborne and Space Instruments

      J. V. Siles, J. Kawamura, R. Lin, C. Lee and I. Mehdi

    • A Continuous Wave Terahertz Molecular Laser Pumped by a Quantum Cascade Laser

      A. Pagies, G. Ducournau, and J.-F. Lampin

    • Local Oscillator for a 4.7-THz Multi-Pixel Heterodyne Receiver Based on a Quantum-Cascade Laser

      H. Richter, N. Rothbart, M. Wienold, L. Schrottke, K. Biermann, H. T. Grahn, and H.-W. Hübers

    • A Single-Mode BCB-Embedded Antenna-Integrated Continuous Wave Quantum Cascade Laser for Heterodyne Measurement at 4.745 THz

      L. Bosco, C. Bonzon, K. Otani, M. Justen, M. Beck, and J. Faist

    • Solid State Terahertz Sources

      S. A. Retzloff, J. L. Hesler, T. W. Crowe

15. Session W4 Semiconductor Devices & Receivers, Chair: Jeffrey Hessler

    • Local Oscillator Requirements and Noise Performance of a Cryogenic 360 GHz Schottky Diode Subharmonic Mixer

      D. Pardo, H. Wang, B. Ellison, P. Huggard, B. Alderman, and J. Grajal

    • Spectroscopy Around 245 GHz Based on a SiGe Transmitter and Heterodyne Receiver

      N. Rothbart, K. Schmalz, J. Borngräber, D. Kissinger, and H.-W. Hübers

    • The Diode Heterostructures for THz Devices

      D. G. Pavelyev, A. P. Vasilev, V. A. Kozlov, E. S. Obolensky, S. V. Obolensky, V. M. Ustinov

    • Qualification of Direct Detection Technology for ESA MetOp-SG Space Mission

      M. Hoefle, M. Rickes, I. Oprea, and O. Cojocari

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