Quinlan, F.
, Fortier, T.
, Jiang, H.
and Diddams, S.
(2013),
Analysis of shot noise in the detection of ultrashort optical pulse trains, The Journal of the Optical Society of America B
(Accessed June 2, 2023)
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Analysis of shot noise in the detection of ultrashort optical pulse trains
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Abstract
We present a frequency domain model of shot noise in the photodetection of ultrashort optical pulse trains using a time-varying analysis. Shot noise-limited photocurrent power spectral densities, signal-to-noise expressions, and shot noise spectral correlations are derived that explicitly include the finite response of the photodetector. It is shown that the strength of the spectral correlations in the shot noise depends on the optical pulse width, and that these correlations can create orders-of-magnitude imbalance between the amplitude and phase noise of photonically-generated microwave carriers. It is also shown that only by accounting for spectral correlations can shot noise be equated with the fundamental quantum limit in the detection of optical pulse-to-pulse timing jitter.Citation
The Journal of the Optical Society of America B
Volume
30
Issue
6
Pub Type
Journals
Keywords
microwave photonics, phase noise, shot noise, ultrafast optics
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Created May 31, 2013, Updated February 19, 2017