Photonic microwave generation with high-power photodiodes
Optics
2016-04-13 v1 Atomic Physics
Abstract
We utilize and characterize high-power, high-linearity modified uni-traveling carrier (MUTC) photodiodes for low-phase-noise photonic microwave generation based on optical frequency division. When illuminated with picosecond pulses from a repetition-rate-multiplied gigahertz Ti:sapphire modelocked laser, the photodiodes can achieve 10 GHz signal power of +14 dBm. Using these diodes, a 10 GHz microwave tone is generated with less than 500 attoseconds absolute integrated timing jitter (1 Hz-10 MHz) and a phase noise floor of -177 dBc/Hz. We also characterize the electrical response, amplitude-to-phase conversion, saturation and residual noise of the MUTC photodiodes.
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@article{arxiv.1302.5927,
title = {Photonic microwave generation with high-power photodiodes},
author = {Tara M. Fortier and Franklyn Quinlan and Archita Hati and Craig Nelson and Jennifer A. Taylor and Yang Fu and Joe Campbell and Scott A. Diddams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.5927},
year = {2016}
}
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3 pages, 3 figures