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Operating Conditions for a Pulse-Quantized AC and DC Bipolar Voltage Source

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Author(s)

Samuel Benz, Charles J. Burroughs, Todd E. Harvey, Clark A. Hamilton

Abstract

We have developed an accurate ac and dc bipolar voltage source based on the quantized pulses of Josephson junctions. A factor-of-6 increase in output voltage over previous unipolar waveforms is achieved by generating bipolar waveforms where arrays of junctions are biased with both a broadband two-level digital code and a sine wave. We use simulations to determine the optimum operating conductions as a function of frequency and as a function of the phase difference between the digital code and the sinusoidal drive.
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Volume
9
Issue
2
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

digital/analog converter, Josephson juction, quantization, superconductivity, voltage standard
Electrical / electromagnetic metrology

Citation

Benz, S. , Burroughs, C. , Harvey, T. and Hamilton, C. (1999), Operating Conditions for a Pulse-Quantized AC and DC Bipolar Voltage Source, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=638 (Accessed October 8, 2025)

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Created May 31, 1999, Updated October 12, 2021
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