Radiation From Flux Flow In Josephson Junction Structures

Abstract

We derive the radiation power from a single Josephson junction (JJ) and from layered superconductors in the flux-flow regime. For the JJ case we formulate the boundary conditions for the electric and magnetic fields at the edges of the superconducting leads using the Maxwell equations in the dielectric media and find dynamic boundary conditions for the phase difference in JJ which account for the radiation. In a finite-length JJ the power conversion efficiency is determined by the dissipation inside JJ and it tends to unity as dissipation vanishes independently of mismatch of the junction and dielectric media impedances. We formulate also the dynamic boundary conditions for the phase difference in intrinsic Josephson junctions in layered high-temperature superconductors at the boundary with free space. Using these boundary conditions, we find the dynamic phase difference in the linear regime for rectangular and triangular lattices of Josephson vortices and evaluate radiation into a free space for these simple cases.