Title :
Microwave signal synchronized with a mode-locked Er-fiber laser with ultralow residual phase noise and drift
Author :
Jung, Kwangyun ; Kim, Jungwon
Author_Institution :
KAIST Inst. for Opt. Sci. & Technol., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol. (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea
Abstract :
An 8.06 GHz microwave signal is synchronized with a 77.5-MHz mode-locked Er-fiber laser with residual phase noise of -152 dBc/Hz (-120 dBc/Hz) at 10 kHz (1 Hz) offset frequency and sub-10-femtosecond long-term phase drift.
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser noise; microwave photonics; optical pulse generation; phase noise; synchronisation; erbium fiber laser; frequency 77.5 MHz; frequency 8.06 GHz; laser mode locking; microwave signal synchronization; residual phase drift; residual phase noise; Masers; Microwave measurements; Microwave oscillators; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Phase noise; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
