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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
