An Integrated High-Temperature Superconductive Photomixer/Antenna

II. THEORY AND SIMULATION Abstract— A novel THz device concept called as CW HTS (high temperature superconductive) photomixer/antenna is proposed. Optical heterodyne photomixing in the DC-biased HTS strip has been employed to create THz signal, and the size of the strip on the grounded dielectric substrate is designed to have an efficient broadside radiation. Incorporating the HTS microstrip configuration as both photomixing media and radiation element at the same time not only increases the CW photocurrent but also the radiation power. The typical nW output power can be obtained by mW laser pump power for frequencies up to the gap frequency of the HTS material. The output power of the proposed device is theoretically higher than the experimentally available data from a Low-Temperature-Grown (LTG) GaAs photomixer integrated with dipole or bow-tie antenna reported in the literature. A. Theory