Discriminator-aided optical phase-lock loop incorporating a frequency down-conversion module

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 2344-2346

  Rideout, Howard R ^a   Seregelyi, Joe S ^b   Paquet, Stéphane ^b   Yao, Jianping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Industry Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Frequency discriminator; Frequency down conversion; Optical heterodyning; Phase lock loop

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS FREQUENCY; CONTROL CIRCUITS; DOWNCONVERSION; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATORS; LOW PHASE NOISE; LOWER FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; MICROWAVE SIGNALS; NEW DESIGN; OPTICAL HETERODYNING; OPTICAL PHASE; PHASE LOCK LOOPS; PHASE NOISE ANALYSIS; PHASE NOISE PERFORMANCE; REDUCED COST; REFERENCE SOURCE; TUNABLE MICROWAVE;

COST REDUCTION; DISCRIMINATORS; HETERODYNING; PHASE NOISE;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 33947261578     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.885212     Document Type: Article

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