High spectral purity Kerr frequency comb radio frequency photonic oscillator

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Liang, W ^a   Eliyahu, D ^a   Ilchenko, V S ^a   Savchenkov, A A ^a   Matsko, A B ^a   Seidel, D ^a   Maleki, L ^a  

^a OEWAVES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LASER; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NOISE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

ALLAN DEVIATION MEASUREMENT; ARTICLE; KERR FREQUENCY COMB OSCILLATOR; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; OSCILLATION; OSCILLATOR; PHASE NOISE; RADIOFREQUENCY; THERMODYNAMICS; WEIGHT;

EID: 84939155943     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8957     Document Type: Article

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