The performance of newer generations of ultra high stability atomic frequency standards based on laser cooled atoms and ions appears to be limited by the local oscillator and the microwave synthesis chain. To improve this performance, the design considerations of microwave synthesizers for Cs hyperfine clock transition at 9.192 GHz that emphasize high resolution, low phase modulation (PM) and a...

Low-phase-noise microwave oscillators are important to a wide range of subjects, including communications, radar and metrology. Photonic-based microwave-wave sources now provide record, close-to-carrier phase-noise performance, and compact sources using microcavities are available commercially. Photonics-based solutions address a challenging scaling problem in electronics, increasing attenuatio...

During the past decade we have demonstrated that coupled nonlinear systems (oscillator arrays) can offer simple methods for phase control in microwave antenna arrays, and hence provides alternatives to conventional electronic beam scanning capability. Numerous experiments have been carried out at microwave frequencies to verify the analysis, and the experimental work proved valuable in guiding ...

Ultra-low-noise microwave oscillators are often required to serve as reference signals in precision phase modulation (PM) noise measurement systems and in a host of other applications. We have significantly improved the spectral purity of NIST’s traditional cavity-stabilized microwave oscillator design, which uses a conventional air-dielectric cavity resonator as a frequency discriminator. We d...

An approach to design of chaotic oscillators with controlled bandwidth in different frequency bands is proposed. One of possible mathematical models of the oscillator and simulation results are considered. Implementations of microwave chaotic oscillators and experimental results are demonstrated. Index terms – Dynamic chaos, chaotic oscillator, frequency-selective circuit, microstrip line, wide...

A recent experiment, performed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has demonstrated that by locking a microwave oscillator to an optical pulse train from a modelocked laser, exceptional timing stability can be achieved. In the experiment, a 10.225-GHz microwave oscillator was locked to an optical phase detection apparatus consisting of a modelocked laser, a Sagnac interferometer, and ...

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In this work, we analyze the contributions of several mechanisms to the additive phase noise of the optical fiber in a microwave-photonic link. We discuss their fiber-length dependence and their impact on the phase noise of an optoelectronic oscillator. Furthermore, we present and verify for the first time a mechanism by which double-Rayleigh scattering directly generates microwave phase noise.

A theoretical spectroscopic analysis of a microwave driven superconducting charge qubit Cooper-pair box coupled to an RLC oscillator model is performed. By treating the oscillator as a probe through the backreaction effect of the qubit on the oscillator circuit, we extract frequency splitting features analogous to the AutlerTownes effect from quantum optics, thereby extending the analogies betw...