Low jitter optical and microwave synthesis with frequency combs

Author

Diddams, S.A. ; Fortier, T. ; Kirchner, M.S. ; Meyer, S.A. ; Quinlan, F.J. ; Taylor, J. ; Bergquist, J.C. ; Jiang, Y. ; Ludlow, A. ; Oates, C.W. ; Rosenband, T.

Author_Institution

Time & Freq. Div., Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Boulder, CO, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

5-9 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

409

Lastpage

411

Abstract

An optically-stabilized femtosecond laser optical frequency comb can serve as a source of optical and microwave waveforms with absolute integrated timing jitter on the scale of a few femtoseconds. This ultralow jitter is due to the stability of a passive optical cavity, which is the frequency reference for the system. We will present recent results in the generation of low phase noise 10 GHz signals and will discuss our progress towards the synthesis of more complicated waveforms.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; microwave photonics; optical frequency conversion; optical noise; phase noise; timing jitter; absolute integrated timing jitter; frequency 10 GHz; low jitter optical synthesis; microwave synthesis; microwave waveforms; optical waveforms; optically-stabilized femtosecond laser optical frequency comb; passive optical cavity; ultralow jitter; Laser noise; Masers; Microwave oscillators; Optical noise; Optimized production technology; Phase noise; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics (MWP), 2010 IEEE Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7824-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2010.5664254

Filename

5664254