Analysis of Noise Mechanisms Limiting the Frequency Stability of Microwave Signals Generated with a Femtosecond Laser

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1059-1065

  Ivanov, Eugene N ^a   Diddams, Scott A ^b   Hollberg, Leo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Femtosecond lasers; Frequency stability; Optical clocks; Optical frequency metrology; Phase noise

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY STABILITY; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FEMTOSECOND LASERS; OPTICAL CLOCKS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY METROLOGY; PHASE NOISES;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

EID: 0347537778     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2003.819093     Document Type: Article

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