G. Carapella et al., Microwave radiation from Zero Field singularities in stacks of two long Josephson junctions, IEEE APPL S, 9(2), 1999, pp. 4558-4561
We present experimental results on the radiation emitted from two-stacks of
long Josephson junctions with double overlap geometry. Microwave radiation
was received from the voltage-locked Zero Field Steps of the c(-) family,
corresponding to fluxon-antifluxon pairs oscillating in the stack. It was a
lso received from other current singularities, interpreted as resonances ex
cited by the magnetic field generated by the nonuniform bias currents. In t
he former case, there is experimental evidence for an appreciable signal, w
hile, theoretically, the net signal produced is expected to be vanishingly
small. This event can be explained in terms of a possible delay between the
component signals, as the junctions in the stack do not have identical len
gth.