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most citedCharacterization of Power-to-Phase Conversion in High-Speed P-I-N Photodiodes

152 citations · 167 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

physics.optics2026

Redefining the limits of real-time noise cancellation in optical fiber links

Charles A. McLemore, Marco Pomponio, Takuma Nakamura +4

A broad and growing array of applications rely on the faithful transmission of ultrastable optical signals over noisy paths, requiring cancellation of environmentally induced noise…

physics.optics2026

Fiber Link Stabilization with a Multicore Fiber Amplifier

Yifan Liu, Takuma Nakamura, Daniel J. Elson +7

We study the use of separate cores of a multicore erbium-doped fiber amplifier (MC-EDFA) in a noise-canceled link for ultrastable optical frequency transfer. We demonstrate fractio…

physics.optics2025

Photonic Generation and Free-Space Distribution of Millimeter Waves for Portable Optical Clocks

Dylan Meyer, Alexander Lind, William Groman +7

Robust and portable optical clocks promise to bring sub-picosecond timing instability to smaller form factors, offering possible performance improvements and new scenarios for posi…

physics.optics2025

Ultralow noise microwaves with free-running frequency combs and electrical feedforward

Takuma Nakamura, William Groman, Qing-Xin Ji +11

Optically generated microwave signals exhibit some of the lowest phase noise and timing jitter of any microwave-generating technology to date. The success of octave-spanning optica…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Chip-scale modulation-free laser stabilization using vacuum-gap micro-Fabry-Pérot cavity

Mohamad Hossein Idjadi, Haotian Cheng, Farshid Ashtiani +5

Narrow-linewidth lasers are vital for a broad range of scientific and technological applications, including atomic clocks and precision sensing. Achieving high frequency stability…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Sub-femtosecond stabilization of multicore fiber for high-fidelity quantum networking at 100% duty cycle

Takuma Nakamura, Nazanin Hoghooghi, Nicolas Fontaine +8

Originally envisioned as a solution for the capacity crunch in telecommunications networks, multicore fibers (MCF) are contributing to scientific fields beyond telecom, such as sen…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

From ultra-noisy to ultra-stable: optimization of the optoelectronic laser lock

Takuma Nakamura, Yifan Liu, Naijun Jin +5

We demonstrate thermal-noise-limited direct locking of a semiconductor distributed feedback (DFB) laser to a sub-1 mL volume, ultrastable optical cavity, enabling extremely compact…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Dual Laser Self-Injection Locking to a Micro Fabry-Perot for Low Phase Noise Millimeter-wave Generation

William Groman, Naijun Jin, Haotian Cheng +8

Low-noise and accessible millimeter-wave sources are critical for emergent telecommunications, radar and sensing applications. Current limitations to realizing low-noise, deployabl…

physics.optics2024★ 6 cited

Cryogenic photonic link using an extended-InGaAs photodiode and short pulse illumination towards high-fidelity drive of superconducting qubits

Takuma Nakamura, Dahyeon Lee, Jason Horng +3

We investigate short pulse illumination of a high-speed extended-InGaAs photodiode at cryogenic temperatures towards its use in control and readout of superconducting qubits. First…

physics.optics2024

Enabling a multifunctional telecommunications fiber optic network: Ultrastable optical frequency transfer and attosecond timing in deployed multicore fiber

Nazanin Hoghooghi, Mikael Mazur, Nicolas Fontaine +10

The telecommunications industry's deployment of billions of kilometers of optical fiber has created a vast global network that can be exploited for additional applications such as…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Harnessing micro-Fabry-Perot reference cavities in photonic integrated circuits

Haotian Cheng, Chao Xiang, Naijun Jin +12

Compact photonic systems that offer high frequency stability and low noise are of increasing importance to applications in precision metrology, quantum computing, communication, an…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 1 cited

Deployment of a Transportable Yb Optical Lattice Clock

Tobias Bothwell, Wesley Brand, Robert Fasano +16

We report on the first deployment of a ytterbium (Yb) transportable optical lattice clock (TOLC), commercially shipping the clock 3,000 km from Boulder, Colorado to Washington DC.…

physics.optics2024

Ultrastable vacuum-gap Fabry-Pérot cavities operated in air

Yifan Liu, Naijun Jin, Dahyeon Lee +9

We demonstrate a vacuum-gap ultrastable optical reference cavity that does not require a vacuum enclosure. Our simple method of optical contact bonding in a vacuum environment allo…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Photonic Millimeter-wave Generation Beyond the Cavity Thermal Limit

William Groman, Igor Kudelin, Alexander Lind +11

Next-generation communications, radar and navigation systems will extend and exploit the higher bandwidth of the millimeter-wave domain for increased communication data rates as we…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Dual-comb correlation spectroscopy of thermal light

Eugene J. Tsao, Alexander J. Lind, Connor Fredrick +8

The detection of light of thermal origin is the principal means by which humanity has learned about our world and the cosmos. In optical astronomy, in particular, direct detection…

physics.optics2024

Tunable X-band opto-electronic synthesizer with ultralow phase noise

Igor Kudelin, Pedram Shirmohammadi, William Groman +12

Modern communication, navigation, and radar systems rely on low noise and frequency-agile microwave sources. In this application space, photonic systems provide an attractive alter…

physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

A Novel Approach to Interface High-Q Fabry-Pérot Resonators with Photonic Circuits

Haotian Cheng, Naijun Jin, Zhaowei Dai +8

The unique benefits of Fabry-Pérot resonators as frequency-stable reference cavities and as an efficient interface between atoms and photons make them an indispensable resource for…

physics.optics2011★ 152 cited

Characterization of Power-to-Phase Conversion in High-Speed P-I-N Photodiodes

J. Taylor, S. Datta, A. Hati +4

Fluctuations of the optical power incident on a photodiode can be converted into phase fluctuations of the resulting electronic signal due to nonlinear saturation in the semiconduc…