{"id":186839,"date":"2024-04-05T10:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T15:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/high-quality-microwave-signals-generated-from-tiny-photonic-chip"},"modified":"2024-04-05T10:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T15:22:26","slug":"high-quality-microwave-signals-generated-from-tiny-photonic-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/high-quality-microwave-signals-generated-from-tiny-photonic-chip","title":{"rendered":"High-Quality Microwave Signals Generated from Tiny Photonic Chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-quality-microwave-signals-generated-from-tiny-photonic-chip.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new Nature study, Columbia Engineering researchers have built a photonic chip that is able to produce high-quality, ultra-low-noise microwave signals using only a single laser. The compact device\u2014a chip so small, it could fit on a sharp pencil point\u2014results in the lowest microwave noise ever observed in an integrated photonics platform.<\/p>\n<p>The achievement provides a promising pathway towards small-footprint ultra-low-noise microwave generation for applications such as high-speed communication, atomic clocks, and autonomous vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge Electronic devices for global navigation, wireless communications, radar, and precision timing need stable microwave sources to serve as clocks and information carriers. A key aspect to increasing the performance of these devices is reducing the noise, or random fluctuations in phase, that is present on the microwave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new Nature study, Columbia Engineering researchers have built a photonic chip that is able to produce high-quality, ultra-low-noise microwave signals using only a single laser. The compact device\u2014a chip so small, it could fit on a sharp pencil point\u2014results in the lowest microwave noise ever observed in an integrated photonics platform. The achievement [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}