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Generation of Ultrastable microwaves via optical frequency division

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Tara Fortier, Matthew S. Kirchner, Jennifer A. Taylor, James C. Bergquist, Yanyi Jiang, Andrew Ludlow, Christopher W. Oates, Till P. Rosenband, Scott Diddams, Franklyn Quinlan, Nathan D. Lemke

Abstract

A frequency-stabilized femtosecond laser optical frequency comb serves as a source of microwave signals having very low close-to-carrier phase noise. Comparison of two independent systems shows combined absolute phase noise of -100 dBc/Hz at an offset of 1 Hz from the 10 GHz carrier. The corresponding timing jitter is 2 fs, integrated from 1 Hz to 1 MHz.
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Nature Photonics
Volume
5
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

frequency comb, phase noise, microwave synthesis
Time and frequency and Physics

Citation

Fortier, T. , Kirchner, M. , Taylor, J. , Bergquist, J. , Jiang, Y. , Ludlow, A. , Oates, C. , Rosenband, T. , Diddams, S. , Quinlan, F. and Lemke, N. (2011), Generation of Ultrastable microwaves via optical frequency division, Nature Photonics, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=906753 (Accessed October 13, 2025)

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Created June 25, 2011, Updated October 12, 2021
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