23 June 2022 Digital calibration test results for Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array band 7+8 sideband separating receiver
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Abstract

We present the results of a digital calibration technique applied to an Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array sideband separating wideband astronomical receiver of 275 to 500 GHz radio frequency (RF) and 3 to 22 GHz intermediate frequency bandwidth. The calibration technique consists of computing the magnitude ratio and the phase difference of the receiver output, and then applying correction constants to the digitized signals. Two analog-digital converters are used to digitize the signals and an field-programmable gate array for the processing. No modification in the analog receiver is required to apply the calibration, as it works directly on upper sideband/lower sideband signals. The technique improved the receiver temperature compared with the double sideband case by increasing the sideband rejection ratio by around 30 dB on average. It is shown that even more rejection can be obtained with more careful control of the RF calibration input power.

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Franco Curotto, Ricardo Finger, Takafumi Kojima, Kazunori Uemizu, Álvaro González, Yoshinori Uzawa, and Leonardo Bronfman "Digital calibration test results for Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array band 7+8 sideband separating receiver," Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 8(2), 024004 (23 June 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.8.2.024004
Received: 9 November 2021; Accepted: 3 June 2022; Published: 23 June 2022
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KEYWORDS
Calibration

Receivers

Field programmable gate arrays

Analog electronics

Astronomy

Phase measurement

Signal processing

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