Oscillations in Josephson transmission line stimulated by load in the presence of noise

Abstract

The joint action of the matching to a common RC-load and thermal noise on the spectral properties of parallel Josephson junction array is studied. It is demonstrated that proper matching suppresses the chaotic dynamics of the system. The efficiency of radiation is found to be highest within a limited frequency band, which corresponds to transformation of the shuttle soliton oscillating regime into the linear wave resonance synchronization mode. In this frequency band the spectral linewidth agrees well with a double of the linewidth for a shuttle fluxon oscillator, divided by a number of the oscillators in the array. When the oscillations demonstrate strong amplitude modulation, the linewidth increases roughly by a factor of five compared with theoretical linewidth formula.