微波声调的振幅减噪
Joe Depellette1, Ewa Rej1, Matthew Herbst1
1QTF Centre of Excellence, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland.
The Review of scientific instruments
|August 28, 2025
概括
我们开发了一种反取消技术来减少微波发电机的振幅噪声. 这种方法显著降低了噪音水平,提高了微波光学等实验的灵敏度.
科学领域:
- 物理
- 实验物理
- 量子现象
背景情况:
- 连贯的载体噪声,特别是振幅噪声,限制了灵敏度,并在敏感的实验系统中引起加热.
- 当振幅噪声占主导地位时,现有的相位噪声消除技术是无效的.
- 随着相位噪声性能的提高,广度噪声在微波系统中越来越令人担忧.
研究的目的:
- 通过反取消来减少微波发电机的振幅噪声的新技术.
- 在微波光学实验中证明该技术的有效性.
主要方法:
- 使用现场可编程网关阵列 (FPGA) 来产生具有可调节增益和时间延迟的取消噪声信号.
- 在原始微波音和产生的噪声信号之间实施破坏性干扰.
- 调整频率偏移和带宽以消除噪音.
主要成果:
- 从4GHz的微波声调到2MHz的偏移,实现了13dB的噪声功率降低,将总噪声降低到相位噪声水平.
- 在微波光学实验中观察到外界诱导的腔热减少了3.5倍.
- 降低了最小振荡器占用率的2倍.
结论:
- 开发的反取消技术有效地降低了微波发电机的振幅噪声.
- 这种方法提高了敏感实验的性能,例如微波光学中的侧带冷却.
- 这种技术扩大了改善微波系统的噪声消除策略的范围.
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