Characterisations of absolute phase noise in fibre-laser modelocked by sapphireloaded cavity resonator oscillator at 10 GHz

Electronics Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 672-674

  Ng, W ^a   So, Y M ^b  

^a Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; BANDPASS FILTERS; CAVITY RESONATORS; FREQUENCIES; LASER MODE LOCKING; SAPPHIRE; SHOT NOISE; TIMING JITTER;

DOWNCONVERTERS; OPTICAL CLOCK DISTRIBUTION; PHASE NOISE; SAPPHIRE-LOADED CAVITY RESONATORS (SLCR);

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 2942729815     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20040337     Document Type: Article

References (7)

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3. The specifications for these SLCR oscillators can be obtained from Poseidon Scientific Instruments (PSI), Fremantle, WA, Australia. See also the paper of Ivanov, E.N., Tobar, M.E., and Woode, R.A.: 'Applications of interferometric signal processing to phase noise reduction in microwave oscillators', IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., 1998, 46, (10), pp. 1537-1545
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7. Specifications for the PN-9000 phase noise measurement test-set can be obtained from Aeroflex Inc., Conshohocken, PA, USA