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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (PHO), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8940-4
DOI :
10.1109/PHO.2011.6110690
