Abstract

We present the flight configuration and performance of the superconducting integrated receiver (SIR) channel on the TELIS instrument (terahertz and submm limb sounder). The SIR is an on-chip combination of a low-noise SIS mixer with a quasioptical antenna, a superconducting flux flow oscillator (FFO) acting as local oscillator (LO) and an SIS harmonic mixer (HM) for FFO phase locking. The SIR has been assembled, fully integrated into the system and is currently being thoroughly tested in preparation for the flight campaign in October 2007 (Teresina, Brazil).

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