Er:fiber-based femtosecond frequency comb stabilized to an Yb+ single-ion optical frequency standard

An erbium fiber-based femtosecond optical frequency comb stabilized to an Yb+ single-ion optical frequency standard was created. For the first time, a combination of an extra-cavity acousto-optic frequency modulator with fiber outputs and an intracavity electro-optic phase modulator based on a KTP crystal were used to stabilize offset frequency and one of the optical components of the Er:fiber femtosecond comb. As a result a locking bandwidth of 30 kHz for the optical comb offset frequency has been obtained. It is shown that the relative instability introduced by the stabilization and measurement systems into the output radio frequencies (in addition to the instability of the reference optical signal) is no worse than 5 × 10−14 for averaging times of 1 s and 2 × 10−16 for averaging times of 400 s.

Theory and Experiments of Injection-Locked Oscillator

Injection-locking technique is receiving increasing interest in industrial applications, which is especially suitable for smart antenna array, but relative experiments are complicated. The article focuses on the theory and experiment of the technique. Firstly, section 2 reviews the theory of injection-locking technique, and summarizes two useful conclusions on injection-locking bandwidth and phase difference adjusting bound of the phenomena. Secondly, section 3 describes experiments using commercial microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), which is reduces the experimental conditions. Experiments results perform very well.