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Quantum State Engineering of Light with Continuous-wave Optical Parametric Oscillators
Published on: May 30, 2014
Self-starting ultralow-jitter pulse source based on coupled optoelectronic oscillators with an intracavity fiber
David Dahan1, Evgeny Shumakher, Gadi Eisenstein
1Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel. ddahan@tx.technion.ac.il
Abstract:
A self-starting optical pulse source based on mutually coupled optoelectronic oscillators is described. The system employs a phototransistor-based microwave oscillator that is coupled to a fiber cavity optoelectronic oscillator with an intracavity fiber parametric amplifier. It self-starts and exhibits 3 ps pulses at a rate of 10 GHz with extremely low jitter of 30, 29, and 40 fs (for integration bandwidths of 100 Hz-15 kHz, 500 Hz-1 MHz, and 100 Hz-1 MHz, respectively).
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