Synchronization of an optical frequency comb and a microwave oscillator with -174 dBc/Hz noise floor

Abstract

We demonstrate optical-microwave timing synchronization by employing electro-optic sampling-based timing detector with residual phase noise (at 8-GHz carrier) of –174.5 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset frequency and 88-as integrated timing jitter (over 1-MHz bandwidth).