Experiments on the interaction between long Josephson junctions and a coplanar strip resonator

Abstract

Experiments are reported on a new geometry designed to couple long Josephson junction fluxon oscillators to a resonant cavity. The junctions were made with a niobium-aluminum oxide-niobium trilayer process with a critical-current density of around 1000 A/cm2. Various numbers of such junctions were incorporated directly as part of a coplanar strip half-wave resonator, with fundamental mode of about 34 GHz. Both the current density and oscillation frequency are higher than in previous experiments. Evidence for phase locking of multiple junctions is presented.