Frequency characteristics of superconductive coaxial lines

By precise manufacturing methods, 1.6-mm 50-Ω superconductive coaxial lines having few impedance irregularities (0.2 to 0.3 Ω) have been produced. Their attenuation constant at 4.2 K shows a smooth gradual increase upto 12.4 GHz in proportion to frequency. The loss at 1 GHz is 0.7 dB/km for the line using tetra fluoroethylene-hexa fluoropropylene (FEP) and 1.6 dB/km for the line using polyethylene (PE).