Phase noise of whispering gallery photonic hyper-parametric microwave oscillators

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 4130-4144

  Savchenkov, Anatoliy A ^a   Rubiola, Enrico ^a,b,c   Matsko, Andrey B ^a   Ilchenko, Vladimir S ^a   Maleki, Lute ^a,b  

^a OEWAVES INC   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM FLUORIDE; DIELECTRIC RESONATORS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PHASE NOISE; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; RAMAN SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHOT NOISE;

HIGH FINESSE RESONATORS; PHOTONIC MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

CALCIUM FLUORIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; PHOTON;

ARTIFACTS; CALCIUM FLUORIDE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICROWAVES; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; PHOTONS;

EID: 41149158776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.004130     Document Type: Article

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