The photodetection of ultrashort optical pulse trains for low noise microwave signal generation

F Quinlan - Laser & photonics reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Electrical signals derived from optical sources have achieved record‐low levels of phase
noise, and have demonstrated the highest frequency stability yet achieved in the microwave …

Coherent optical clock down-conversion for microwave frequencies with 10−18 instability

T Nakamura, J Davila-Rodriguez, H Leopardi… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Optical atomic clocks are poised to redefine the Système International (SI) second, thanks to
stability and accuracy more than 100 times better than the current microwave atomic clock …

Attosecond electronic timing with rising edges of photocurrent pulses

M Hyun, C Ahn, Y Na, H Chung, J Kim - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
There has been remarkable progress in generating ultralow-noise microwaves from optical
frequency combs in the last decade. While a combination of techniques has enabled tens to …

Frequency stable microwave sapphire oscillators

EN Ivanov, ME Tobar - IEEE Microwave and Wireless …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We show that state-of-the-art phase noise and high frequency stability could be
simultaneously achieved in a microwave oscillator based on the sapphire-loaded cavity …

Piezo-electric transducer actuated mirror with a servo bandwidth beyond 500 kHz

T Nakamura, S Tani, I Ito, M Endo, Y Kobayashi - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a novel system that uses a piezoelectric transducer (PZT)-actuated mirror
for laser stabilization. A combination of a simple mechanical design and electronic circuits is …

Reduction of flicker phase noise in high-speed photodetectors under ultrashort pulse illumination

D Lee, T Nakamura, J Zang, JC Campbell… - Ieee Photonics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-fidelity photodetection enables the transfer of the low noise inherent to optical
oscillators to the microwave domain. However, when photodetecting optical signals of the …

Analysis and mitigation of photodiode non-linearity under the influence of optical modulator in multitone RoF link

D Garg, A Nain - Journal of Optics, 2022 - Springer
This paper presents a detailed theoretical analysis to measure the photodiode non-linearity
including the effect of the optical modulator in terms of output third-order intercept point …

Noise suppression with cryogenic resonators

EN Ivanov, ME Tobar - IEEE Microwave and Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We show that fast technical fluctuations of microwave signals can be strongly suppressed by
cryogenic resonators. The experiments were carried out with sapphire resonators cooled to …

The effect of bias and frequency on amplitude to phase conversion of photodiodes

J Sun, B Xu, W Sun, S Zhu, N Zhu - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fluctuation of the optical power incident on a photodiode will cause phase variation of the
electrical signal. This phenomenon is known as amplitude-to-phase (AM-to-PM) conversion …

Integrated CMOS-compatible mode-locked lasers and their optoelectronic applications

FX Kärtner, N Singh - 2019 IEEE BiCMOS and Compound …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mode-locked lasers producing femtosecond pulses show ultra-low timing jitter. Upon photo
detection the harmonics of the photo current at multiples of the pulse repetition rate, show …