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Impact of Optical Amplification and Pulse Interleaving on Low Phase Noise Photonic Microwave Generation

Franklyn Quinlan, Fred N. Baynes, Tara M. Fortier, Qiugui Zhou, Allen S. Cross, Joe Charles Campbell, Scott A. Diddams

Published Jan 1, 2014• 1 citation
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Abstract

Using carefully constructed pulse interleavers, we demonstrate ~10 dB reduction in the quantum noise from optical amplification for short pulse detection, resulting in a phase noise floor on a 10 GHz microwave of −175 dBc/Hz.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_si.2014.sth3o.2

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