Microwave synthesizer using an on-chip Brillouin oscillator

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Li, Jiang ^a   Lee, Hansuek ^a   Vahala, Kerry J ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUIPMENT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; OSCILLATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

ARTICLE; BRILLOUIN OSCILLATOR; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRONICS; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MICROWAVE FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER; OPTICS; OSCILLATOR;

EID: 84885441687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3097     Document Type: Article

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