Patrice Salzenstein

Dr. Patrice Salzenstein

FEMTO-ST, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, Île-de-France, France
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Academic Career Length

31Years (1996-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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7 October 2010 in Optics Express
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KVKirill Volyanskiy
Kirill Volyanskiy
Patrice SalzensteinPatrice Salzenstein
Patrice Salzenstein
HTHervé Tavernier
Hervé Tavernier
MPMaxim Pogurmirskiy
Maxim Pogurmirskiy
YCYanne K. Chembo
Yanne K. Chembo
LLLaurent Larger
Laurent Larger
We demonstrate a compact optoelectronic oscillator based on phase modulation and ultra-high Q disk resonators. A 10.7 GHz microwave is generated, with a phase noise of −90 dBrad2/Hz at 10 kHz from the carrier, and −110 dBrad2/Hz at 100 kHz.

19 December 2014 in Optics Express
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KSKhaldoun Saleh
Khaldoun Saleh
RHRémi Henriet
Rémi Henriet
SDSouleymane Diallo
Souleymane Diallo
GLGuoping Lin
Guoping Lin
RMRomain Martinenghi
Romain Martinenghi
YCYanne K. Chembo
Yanne K. Chembo
We investigate the phase noise performance of optoelectronic oscillators when the optical energy storage elements are in the following three configurations: a high-Q whispering gallery mode resonator, an optical delay-line and a combination of both elements. The stability properties of these various optical elements are first characterized, and then systematically compared in the optical and in the microwave frequency domains. Subsequently, the spectral purity of the oscillator is theoretically and experimentally examined for each case. When the resonator is used as both delay and filtering element inside the delay-line based oscillator, the generated spurious modes are highly rejected. A spur rejection by more than 53 dB has been demonstrated for the first-neighboring spur.

26 November 2008 in Journal of the Optical Society of America B
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KVKirill Volyanskiy
Kirill Volyanskiy
JCJohann Cussey
Johann Cussey
HTHervé Tavernier
Hervé Tavernier
Patrice SalzensteinPatrice Salzenstein
Patrice Salzenstein
GSGérard Sauvage
Gérard Sauvage
EREnrico Rubiola
Enrico Rubiola
The optical fiber used as a microwave delay line exhibits high stability and low noise and makes accessible a long delay (≳100 μs) in a wide bandwidth (≈40 GHz, limited by the optronic components). Hence, it finds applications as the frequency reference in microwave oscillators and as the reference discriminator for the measurement of phase noise. The fiber is suitable to measure the oscillator stability with a sensitivity of parts in 10−12. Enhanced sensitivity is obtained with two independent delay lines, after correlating and averaging. Short-term stability of parts in 10−12 is achieved inserting the delay line in an oscillator. The frequency can be set in steps multiple of the inverse delay, which is in the 10–100 kHz region. We add to the available references a considerable amount of engineering and practical knowledge, the understanding of 1∕f noise, calibration, the analysis of the cross-spectrum technique to reduce the instrument background, the phase-noise model of the oscillator, and the experimental test of the oscillator model.

11 March 2013 in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
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ACAurélien Coillet
Aurélien Coillet
RHRémi Henriet
Rémi Henriet
Patrice SalzensteinPatrice Salzenstein
Patrice Salzenstein
KHKien Phan Huy
Kien Phan Huy
LLLaurent Larger
Laurent Larger
YCYanne K. Chembo
Yanne K. Chembo
Optoelectronic oscillators (OEOs) are microwave photonics systems intended to generate ultrastable radio-frequency signals with unprecedented phase noise performance for aerospace and communication engineering applications. They had originally been introduced in a configuration where the energy storage element was a fiber delay line. However, recent research in view of size and power consumption optimization has led to novel configurations where this fiber delay line is replaced by an ultrahigh Q whispering-gallery mode (WGM) resonator. So far, there has been no theoretical framework enabling to understand the dynamical behavior of these new architectures of OEOs. In this paper, we propose for the first time a deterministic time-domain model to investigate the dynamics of these OEOs based on WGM resonators. This model enables us to perform the stability analysis of the microwave oscillations, and to determine rigorously their range of stability as the loop gain is varied. After building the model, we perform a full stability analysis of the various stationary solutions for the microwave output. We then perform extensive numerical simulations, which are in complete agreement with the stability analysis. The theoretical analysis is also found to be in excellent agreement with our experimental measurements.

14 October 2010 in Electronics Letters
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Patrice SalzensteinPatrice Salzenstein
Patrice Salzenstein
AKA. Kuna
A. Kuna
LSL. Sojdr
L. Sojdr
JCJ. Chauvin
J. Chauvin
The best frequency stability ever measured on a quartz crystal oscillator is reported: this new Boitiers à Vieillissement Amélioré (BVA) oscillator has an estimated flicker frequency modulation floor of 2.5×10−14 at 5 MHz.

21 April 2021 in Micromachines
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Patrice SalzensteinPatrice Salzenstein
Patrice Salzenstein
Ekaterina PavlyuchenkoEkaterina Pavlyuchenko
Ekaterina Pavlyuchenko
This paper describes a prototype of an optoelectronic oscillator delivering a microwave signal with a power of 5 dBm at 10.52 GHz, promised to be compacted. It is evaluated in terms of its phase noise performance, and the associated ±2 dB uncertainty at 2 σ is calculated according to the international standards enacted for metrology.