• DocumentCode
    733296
  • Title

    Broadband phase noise limit in the direct detection of ultralow jitter optical pulses

  • Author

    Quinlan, Franklyn ; Wenlu Sun ; Fortier, Tara M. ; Deschenes, Jean-Daniel ; Yang Fu ; Campbell, Joe C. ; Diddams, Scott A.

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Boulder, CO, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The lowest measured phase noise floors of photonically generated microwave signals are orders-of-magnitude above the quantum limit. We show this discrepancy is likely due to photocarrier scattering in high speed, high linearity photodetectors.
  • Keywords
    microwave generation; microwave photonics; optical noise; phase noise; photodetectors; broadband phase noise limit; high speed high linearity photodetectors; photocarrier scattering; photonically generated microwave signals; quantum limit; ultralow jitter optical pulse direct detection; Microwave circuits; Microwave photonics; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Phase noise;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183733
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=733296