Abstract

The possible first observation of Josephson plasma emission from a quasiparticle-injected Bi2Sr2CaCu2Oy(BSCCO) single crystal is reported. The quasiparticles are injected into the c-axis direction of the crystal. The emitted microwaves in the range 10 - 47GHz are detected by a superheterodyne mixer technique. Three different modes of emissions are observed by biasing the current in the hysteretic curve of the intrinsic junctions. In addition to Josephson self-emission at low bias voltage, we find the two novel emissions due to nonequilibrium effects: incoherent broadband emissions at quasiparticle branches and a sharp coherent emission in the negative resistance region at the gap edge. The latter two emissions are almost identified as Josephson plasma emissions.

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