A Brillouin laser-driven terahertz oscillator is developed. The phase noise level of the generated terahertz waves is less than –100 dBc Hz–1, translating to timing noise below 10 as Hz–1/2 at 10 kHz Fourier frequency, over a carrier frequency range from 300 GHz to 3 THz.
- Brendan M. Heffernan
- James Greenberg
- Antoine Rolland