Noise in Josephson point contacts with and without rf bias
- 15 December 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 25 (12) , 759-761
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1655390
Abstract
Point contact Josephson junctions operated as microwave mixers at 36 GHz show conversion gain and lower noise than cooled Schottky barrier diodes in the same application. The noise in such junctions with and without rf bias is explored both experimentally and theoretically. The noise power is found to be about a factor 2 above the thermal noise in the resistively shunted junction model. In contrast to previous reports, the inclusion of a shot noise term in the theory for no rf bias overestimates the observed noise substantially.Keywords
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