Characterization of the excess noise conversion from optical relative intensity noise in the photodetection of mode-locked lasers for microwave signal synthesis

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 3622-3631

  Wu, Kan ^a   Shum, Perry Ping ^b   Aditya, Sheel ^a   Ouyang, Chunmei ^a   Wong, Jia Haur ^a   Lam, Huy Quoc ^a   Kian Lee, Kenneth Eng ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b RESEARCH TECHNO PLAZA   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Intensity noise; Microwave signal synthesis and mode locked laser; Phase noise; Pulse width jitter

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION RATIO; ELECTRICAL PULSE; EXCESS NOISE; INTENSITY NOISE; LOW NOISE; MICROWAVE SIGNALS; MODE-LOCKED LASER; NOISE PERFORMANCE; NOISE POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; OPTICAL POWER; PEAK POWER; PHOTO DETECTION; PULSE WIDTH; RELATIVE AMPLITUDE; RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE; SATURATION POWER;

JITTER; MICROWAVES; PHASE NOISE; PHOTODETECTORS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; SPECTRAL DENSITY;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 83455187909     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2173464     Document Type: Article

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