Balanced optical-microwave phase detector for sub-femtosecond optical-RF synchronization

Peng, Michael Y.; Kalaydzhyan, Aram; Kärtner, Franz X.

doi:10.1364/OE.22.027102

Title: Balanced optical-microwave phase detector for sub-femtosecond optical-RF synchronization

Abstract

We demonstrate that balanced optical-microwave phase detectors (BOMPD) are capable of optical-RF synchronization with sub-femtosecond residual timing jitter for large-scale timing distribution systems. RF-to-optical synchronization is achieved with a long-term stability of < 1 fs RMS and < 7 fs pk-pk drift for over 10 hours and short-term stability of < 2 fs RMS jitter integrated from 1 Hz to 200 kHz as well as optical-to-RF synchronization with 0.5 fs RMS jitter integrated from 1 Hz to 20 kHz. Moreover, we achieve a –161 dBc/Hz noise floor that integrates well into the sub-fs regime and measure a nominal 50-dB AM-PM suppression ratio with potential improvement via DC offset adjustment.

Authors:

Peng, Michael Y. ^[1]; Kalaydzhyan, Aram ^[2]; Kärtner, Franz X. ^[3]

Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (Germany)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (Germany); Univ. of Hamburg and the Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging, Hamburg (Germany)

Publication Date:: Thu Oct 23 00:00:00 EDT 2014

Research Org.:: Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

OSTI Identifier:: 1221785

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0005262

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Optics Express

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 22; Journal Issue: 22; Journal ID: ISSN 1094-4087

Publisher:: Optical Society of America (OSA)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; phase measurement; metrological instrumentation; ultrafast technology; laser stabilization; sagnac effect; radio frequency photonics

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                    Peng, Michael Y., Kalaydzhyan, Aram, and Kärtner, Franz X. Balanced optical-microwave phase detector for sub-femtosecond optical-RF synchronization.  United States: N. p., 2014. 
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                    Peng, Michael Y., Kalaydzhyan, Aram, & Kärtner, Franz X. Balanced optical-microwave phase detector for sub-femtosecond optical-RF synchronization.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.027102

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                    Peng, Michael Y., Kalaydzhyan, Aram, and Kärtner, Franz X. Thu .  
"Balanced optical-microwave phase detector for sub-femtosecond optical-RF synchronization".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.027102.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1221785.

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  title        = {Balanced optical-microwave phase detector for sub-femtosecond optical-RF synchronization},

  author       = {Peng, Michael Y. and Kalaydzhyan, Aram and Kärtner, Franz X.},

  abstractNote = {We demonstrate that balanced optical-microwave phase detectors (BOMPD) are capable of optical-RF synchronization with sub-femtosecond residual timing jitter for large-scale timing distribution systems. RF-to-optical synchronization is achieved with a long-term stability of < 1 fs RMS and < 7 fs pk-pk drift for over 10 hours and short-term stability of < 2 fs RMS jitter integrated from 1 Hz to 200 kHz as well as optical-to-RF synchronization with 0.5 fs RMS jitter integrated from 1 Hz to 20 kHz. Moreover, we achieve a –161 dBc/Hz noise floor that integrates well into the sub-fs regime and measure a nominal 50-dB AM-PM suppression ratio with potential improvement via DC offset adjustment.},

  doi          = {10.1364/OE.22.027102},

  journal      = {Optics Express},

  number       = 22,

  volume       = 22,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Thu Oct 23 00:00:00 EDT 2014},

  month        = {Thu Oct 23 00:00:00 EDT 2014}

}

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