• DocumentCode
    2750661
  • Title

    Noise floor reduction of a fiber-based photonic microwave generator by use of a mode-filtering cavity

  • Author

    Jiang, Haifeng ; Taylor, Jennifer ; Quinlan, Franklyn ; Diddams, Scott

  • Author_Institution
    Time & Freq. Div., Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Boulder, CO, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    9-13 Oct. 2011
  • Firstpage
    599
  • Lastpage
    600
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a 10-GHz fiber-based photonic microwave generator with residual phase noise below -110 dBc/Hz for Fourier frequencies higher than 2-Hz. The noise floor is reduced to -156 dBc/Hz by using an optical mode-filtering cavity.
  • Keywords
    microwave photonics; optical fibre filters; optical noise; phase noise; fiber-based photonic microwave generator; noise floor reduction; optical mode-filtering cavity; residual phase noise; Cavity resonators; Floors; Laser noise; Masers; Optical fibers; microwave photonics; mode-filtering cavity; phase noise;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (PHO), 2011 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Arlington, VA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8940-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PHO.2011.6110690
  • Filename
    6110690