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The frequency of a primary subterahertz oscillator has been phase locked with the use of the equidistant components of a broad spectrum produced by a femtosecond laser. The optical-to-terahertz down-conversion of the laser pulse train and its mixing with subterahertz radiation has been performed at a Schottky diode. This work provides the opportunity of creating a principally new generation of frequency synthesizers with the desired power and phase noise a few orders of magnitude lower than that of their traditional analogues.
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Original Russian Text © M.Yu. Tretyakov, A.P. Shkaev, A.M. Kiselev, S.B. Bodrov, A.V. Andrianov, D.S. Makarov, 2010, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2010, Vol. 91, No. 5, pp. 240–243.
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Tretyakov, M.Y., Shkaev, A.P., Kiselev, A.M. et al. Frequency stabilization of a primary subterahertz oscillator by a frequency comb of a femtosecond laser. Jetp Lett. 91, 222–225 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364010050048
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