Octave-Band Microwave Frequency Synthesizer Using Mode-Locked Laser as a Reference

被引：6
作者：
Bahmanian, Meysam [1 ]
Tiedau, Johannes [2 ]
Silberhorn, Christine [2 ]
Scheytt, J. Christoph [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Paderborn, Syst & Circuit Technol, Paderborn, Germany
[2] Univ Paderborn, Appl Phys, Paderborn, Germany
来源：
2019 INTERNATIONAL TOPICAL MEETING ON MICROWAVE PHOTONICS (MWP2019) | 2019年
关键词：
Ultra low phase noise PLL; Low jitter PLL; Mode Locked Laser; GENERATION; DETECTOR;
D O I：
10.1109/mwp.2019.8892046
中图分类号：
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号：
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要：
An octave-band voltage-controlled oscillator is phase-locked on the envelope of the pulse train from a mode-locked laser. The locking scheme employs a balanced Mach-Zehnder modulator with two photodiodes as a phase detector. The phase.locked loop has a loop bandwidth of approximately 1MHz and an in-band phase noise of approximately -135 dBc/Hz at all frequencies. The integrated jitter from 1 kHz to 100MHz is 21 fs, 18.3 fs and 13.8 fs at 5.016 GHz, 7.6 GHz and 10.032 GHz carrier frequencies, respectively. To the authors' knowledge, this is the best jitter performance reported for a PLL with MZM-based phase detection and the first reported PLL of this type featuring an octave-band frequency range.
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页数：4
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