Photonic microwave signals with zeptosecond-level absolute timing noise

Xiaopeng Xie; Romain Bouchand; Daniele Nicolodi; Michele Giunta; Wolfgang Hänsel; Matthias Lezius; Abhay Joshi; Shubhashish Datta; Christophe Alexandre; Michel Lours; Pierre-Alain Tremblin; Giorgio Santarelli; Ronald Holzwarth; Yann Le Coq

doi:10.1038/nphoton.2016.215

journal article Nov 21, 2016

Photonic microwave signals with zeptosecond-level absolute timing noise

Romain Bouchand Daniele Nicolodi Michele Giunta Wolfgang Hänsel Matthias Lezius Abhay Joshi Shubhashish Datta Christophe Alexandre Michel Lours Pierre-Alain Tremblin Giorgio Santarelli

Ronald Holzwarth Yann Le Coq

Nature Photonics Vol. 11 No. 1 pp. 44-47 · Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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Xiaopeng Xie, Romain Bouchand, Daniele Nicolodi, et al. (2016). Photonic microwave signals with zeptosecond-level absolute timing noise. Nature Photonics, 11(1), 44-47. https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2016.215

Photonic microwave signals with zeptosecond-level absolute timing noise

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