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2015
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Physics
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In this paper, we present a very simple design based on commercial devices for the all-optical generation of ultra-low phase noise microwave signals. A commercial, fibered femtosecond laser is locked to a laser that is stabilized to a commercial ULE Fabry-Perot cavity. The 10 GHz microwave signal extracted from the femtosecond laser output exhibits a single sideband phase noise $mathcal{L}(f)=-104 mathrm{dBc}/mathrm{Hz}$ at 1 Hz Fourier frequency, at the level of the best value obtained with such microwave photonics laboratory experiments cite{Fortier2011}. Close-to-the-carrier ultra-low phase noise microwave signals will now be available in laboratories outside the frequency metrology field, opening up new possibilities in various domains.
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