High spectral purity microwave and terahertz oscillator

Gwennaël Danion (1) , Goulc'Hen Loas (1) , Ludovic Frein (1) , Cyril Hamel (1) , Anthony Carré (1) , Steve Bouhier (1) , Marc Vallet (1) , Marc Brunel (1) , Antoine Rolland (1) , Mehdi Alouini (1) , François Bondu (1) , Alexandre Beck (2) , Guillaume Ducournau (2) , Mohamed Zaknoune (2) , Christophe Coinon (2) , Xavier Wallart (2) , Emilien Peytavit (2) , Tahsin Akalin (2) , Jean-Francois Lampin (2) , Frédéric Cleva (3) , Jean-Pierre Coulon (3) , Mourad Merzougui (3) , Alain Brillet (3) , Gregoire Pillet (4) , Loïc Morvan (4) , Ghaya Baili (4) , Jérôme Bourderionnet (4)

1 IPR - Institut de Physique de Rennes
2 IEMN - Institut d’Électronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie - UMR 8520
3 ARTEMIS - Astrophysique Relativiste Théories Expériences Métrologie Instrumentation Signaux
4 Thales Research and Technology [Palaiseau]

We report on the design of an ultra stable microwave/THz oscillator and on the realization and the characterization of its laser source. The tunable oscillator is expected to show below -150 dB rad2/Hz phase instability at an offset frequency of 10 kHz for a 30 GHz carrier frequency, as well as 18 GHz, 100 GHz, 400 GHz and 1 THz carrier frequencies.

Mots clés: millimeter wave oscillator; frequency stabilization; optical to microwave conversion; THz; ultra low phase noise; sub-millimiter wave oscillator

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Gwennaël Danion, Goulc'Hen Loas, Ludovic Frein, Cyril Hamel, Anthony Carré, et al.. High spectral purity microwave and terahertz oscillator. 6th Joint IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium/European Frequency and Time Forum, IFCS-EFTF 2013, 2013, Prague, Czech Republic. pp.40-42, ⟨10.1109/EFTF-IFC.2013.6702198⟩. ⟨hal-00944028⟩