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This is a comment on a recent paper by Yoshimura and Arai [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 154101 (2008)] on phase reduction of noisy limit-cycle oscillators, in which the authors claimed that the conventional phase stochastic differential equation…
In this article, we present a systematic study of the critical behavior of phase oscillators with multiplicative noise from a thermodynamic equilibrium approach. We have already presented the thermodynamics of phase noise oscillators and…
We developed a compact and easy-to-use phase meter based on a zero-crossing counting algorithm for digitized signals. Owing to the algorithm, the phase meter has low-noise and wide dynamic range. Low-noise differential phase measurements…
We review the state space decomposition techniques for the assessment of the noise properties of autonomous oscillators, a topic of great practical and theoretical importance for many applications in many different fields, from electronics,…
This paper presents a switch-type attenuator working from 20 to 100 GHz. The attenuator adopts a capacitive compensation technique to reduce phase error. The small resistors in this work are implemented with metal lines to reduce the…
We demonstrate a new method of light phase shift measurement using a high-finesse optical ring cavity which exhibits reduced phase noise due to cavity length fluctuations. Two laser beams with a frequency difference of one cavity free…
Current noise in nanoscale systems provides additional information beyond the electronic conductance. We report measurements at room temperature of the nonequilibrium "excess" noise in ensembles of atomic-scale gold junctions repeatedly…
We address the use of optical parametric oscillator (OPO) to counteract phase-noise in quantum optical communication channels, and demonstrate reduction of phase diffusion for coherent signals travelling through a suitably tuned OPO. In…
We introduce a stochastic model for the determination of phase noise in optoelectronic oscillators. After a short overview of the main results for the phase diffusion approach in autonomous oscillators, an extension is proposed for the case…
Relaxation oscillator-based circuits are widely used for interfacing various resistive and capacitive sensors. The electrical equivalent of most resistive and capacitive sensors is represented using a parallel combination of resistor and…
Lasers are the workhorse of quantum engineering in the atomic-molecular-optic community. However, phase noise of the laser, which can be especially large in popular semiconductor-based lasers, can limit fidelity of operation. Here, we…
The measurement of the close-to-the-carrier noise of rf and microwave devices is a relevant issue in time and frequency metrology and in some fields of electronics, physics and optics. While phase noise is the main concern, amplitude noise…
We study a large population of globally coupled phase oscillators subject to common white Gaussian noise and find analytically that the critical coupling strength between oscillators for synchronization transition decreases with an increase…
The phase reduction method for limit cycle oscillators subjected to weak perturbations has significantly contributed to theoretical investigations of rhythmic phenomena. We here propose a generalized phase reduction method that is also…
This paper presents a new procedure for phase detector measurements that allows the use of generators that share a 10 MHz reference oscillator but do not synchronize in phase, in other words, quasi-synchronized RF generators. The objectives…
We study the influence of telegraph noise on synchrony of limit cycle oscillators. Adopting the phase description for these oscillators, we derive the explicit expression for the Lyapunov exponent. We show that either for weak noise or…
Numerous biological and microscale systems exhibit synchronization in noisy environments. The theory of such noisy oscillators and their synchronization has been developed and experimentally demonstrated, but inferring the noise intensity…
We report high-resolution measurements of thermal fluctuations in microwave and mechanical resonators using a dual-channel readout system. The latter comprises a low-noise amplifier, an I/Q-mixer, and a cross-correlator. We discovered that,…
Cavity opto-mechanical cooling via radiation pressure dynamical backaction enables ground state cooling of mechanical oscillators, provided the laser exhibits sufficiently low phase noise. Here, we investigate and measure the excess phase…
A system of two coupled ensembles of phase oscillators can follow different routes to inter-ensemble synchronization. Following a short report of our preliminary results [Phys. Rev. E. {\bf 78}, 025201(R) (2008)], we present a more detailed…