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Thermal fluctuations of different origin in the substrate and in the coating of optical mirrors produce phase noise in the reflected wave. This noise determines the ultimate stabilization capability of high-Q cavities used as a reference…
The 1/f noise in pentacene thin film transistors has been measured as a function of device thickness from well above the effective conduction channel thickness to only two conducting layers. Over the entire thickness range, the spectral…
The advent of ultra-low noise microwave amplifiers revolutionized several research fields demanding quantum-limited technologies. Exploiting a theoretical bimodal description of a linear phase-preserving amplifier, in this contribution we…
Light scattering from resonantly or nearly resonantly excited systems, known as resonance fluorescence, has been gaining importance as a versatile tool for investigating quantum states of matter and readout of quantum information, recently…
We describe the use of digital phase noise test sets at frequencies well beyond the sampling rate of their analog-to-digital converters. The technique proposed involves the transfer of phase fluctuations from an arbitrary high carrier…
Time, and equivalently frequency, is the most precisely measured physical quantity. It is therefore inevitable that virtually all domains of engineering and physics need reference oscillators. The oscillator noise can be decomposed into…
This article deals with the erratic and inconsistent phase-noise spectra often seen in low-noise oscillators, whose floor is of the order of $-180$ dBc/Hz or less. Such oscillators are generally measured with two-channel instruments based…
Nonlinear amplifiers such as the transistor are ubiquitous in classical technology, but their quantum analogues are not well understood. We introduce a class of nonlinear amplifiers that amplify any normal operator and add only a…
Being complex-valued and low in signal-to-noise ratios, magnitude-based diffusion MRI is confounded by the noise-floor that falsely elevates signal magnitude and incurs bias to the commonly used diffusion indices, such as fractional…
We determine the small signal gain and noise response of an amplifier based on the nonlinear response of a quantum nanomechanical resonator. The resonator is biased in the nonlinear regime by a strong harmonic bias force and we determine…
Flicker (1/f^gamma) voltage noise spectrum is derived from finite-temperature quantum electromagnetic fluctuations produced by elementary charge carriers in external electric field. It is suggested that deviations of the frequency exponent…
This report is aimed at reviving the explanation of flicker-noise observations as the result of spectral measurement of very low-frequency but stationary narrow-band fluctuations named as infralow-frequency noise (ILF noise) [A. Ya.…
The optical fiber used as a microwave delay line exhibits high stability and low noise and makes accessible a long delay (>100 microseconds) in a wide bandwidth (about 40 GHz, limited by the optronic components). Hence, it finds…
We consider two coupled phase oscillators in the presence of proportional ("common") and independent white noises. The global synchronization properties of the system are analytically studied via the Fokker-Planck equation. When the…
Very small electromechanical coupling coefficient in micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) or acoustic resonators is quite of a concern for oscillator performance, specially at mmWave frequencies. This small coefficient is the…
We experimentally investigate the evolution of the direct detection noise figure of a non degenerate phase sensitive amplifier based on nonlinear fiber, as a function of the relative phase between the signal, idler, and pump, all other…
This paper augments the existing macroscopic circuit noise model for phase noise in relaxation oscillators by showing the microscopic origins of the noise and explains temperature dependency. The noise arises from fluctuation of the energy…
In this work we study the effect of oscillator phase noise on the uplink performance of a massive multiple-input multiple output system. Specifically, we consider an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing-based uplink transmission and…
Quantum mechanics imposes that any amplifier that works independently on the phase of the input signal has to introduce some excess noise. The impossibility of such a noiseless amplifier is rooted into unitarity and linearity of quantum…
Oscillator phase noise (PN) is one of the major problems that affect the performance of communication systems. In this paper, a direct connection between oscillator measurements, in terms of measured single-side band PN spectrum, and the…