High spectral purity microwave and terahertz oscillator

Author

Danion, Gwennael ; Loas, Goulc´hen ; Frein, Ludovic ; Hamel, Cyril ; Carre, Anthony ; Bouhier, Steve ; Vallet, Marc ; Brunel, Marc ; Rolland, Antoine ; Alouini, Mohamed-Slim ; Bondu, Francois ; Cleva, Frederic ; Coulon, Jean-Pierre ; Merzougui, Mourad ; B

Author_Institution

IPR, Univ. de Rennes 1, Rennes, France

fYear

2013

fDate

21-25 July 2013

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

42

Abstract

We report on the design of an ultra stable microwave/THz oscillator and on the realization and the characterization of its laser source. The tunable oscillator is expected to show below -150 dB rad²/Hz phase instability at an offset frequency of 10 kHz for a 30 GHz carrier frequency, as well as 18 GHz, 100 GHz, 400 GHz and 1 THz carrier frequencies.

Keywords

masers; microwave oscillators; submillimetre wave lasers; submillimetre wave oscillators; terahertz wave devices; frequency 30 GHz; high spectral purity microwave oscillator; laser source characterization; phase instability; terahertz oscillator; ultrastable microwave-THz oscillator; Cavity resonators; Laser noise; Laser stability; Masers; Optical resonators; Resonant frequency; THz; frequency stabilization; millimeter and sub-millimiter wave oscillator; optical to microwave conversion; ultra low phase noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

European Frequency and Time Forum & International Frequency Control Symposium (EFTF/IFC), 2013 Joint

Conference_Location

Prague

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EFTF-IFC.2013.6702198

Filename

6702198