Suppression of amplitude-to-phase noise conversion in balanced optical-microwave phase detectors
Optics
2015-06-17 v1
Abstract
We demonstrate an amplitude-to-phase (AM-PM) conversion coefficient for a balanced optical-microwave phase detector (BOM-PD) of 0.001 rad, corresponding to AM-PM induced phase noise 60 dB below the single-sideband relative intensity noise of the laser. This enables us to generate 8 GHz microwave signals from a commercial Er-fibre comb with a single-sideband residual phase noise of -131 dBc/Hz at 1 Hz offset frequency and -148 dBc/Hz at 1 kHz offset frequency.
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@article{arxiv.1309.1116,
title = {Suppression of amplitude-to-phase noise conversion in balanced optical-microwave phase detectors},
author = {Maurice Lessing and Helen S. Margolis and C. Tom A. Brown and Patrick Gill and Giuseppe Marra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.1116},
year = {2015}
}