• DocumentCode
    1772109
  • Title

    Long-term stable, sub-femtosecond balanced optical-microwave phase detector

  • Author

    Peng, Michael Y. ; Kartner, Franz X.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We achieved a sub-fs thermal-noise-limited noise floor in a balanced optical-microwave phase detector and demonstrated long-term stable RF extraction with <;1 fs RMS drift and <;7 fs pk-pk for over 10 hours of continuous operation.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; microwave photonics; phase detectors; thermal noise; RMS drift; balanced optical-microwave phase detector; long-term stable RF extraction; sub-fs thermal-noise-limited noise floor; subfemtosecond balanced optical microwave phase detector; Adaptive optics; Noise; Optical detectors; Optical mixing; Optical noise; Optical pulses; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989775
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1772109