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ArticleNature communications2025

Large-scale photonic chip based pulse interleaver for low-noise microwave generation.

Zheru Qiu, Neetesh Singh, Yang Liu, Xinru Ji, Rui Ning Wang, Franz X Kärtner, Tobias Kippenberg

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Zheru Qiu *Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6465-026X
Neetesh Singh *Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany. neetesh.singh@desy.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9105-647X
Yang LiuSwiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0508-1474
Xinru JiSwiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Rui Ning WangSwiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Franz X KärtnerCenter for Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany. franz.kaertner@desy.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8829-5461
Tobias KippenbergSwiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. tobias.kippenberg@epfl.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3408-886X

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EC | EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020 | H2020 Priority Excellent Science | H2020 European Research Council (H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council) 965124
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Abstract

Optically generated microwaves exhibit unprecedented low noise, benefiting applications such as communications, radar, instrumentation, and metrology. To date, the purest microwave signals are produced using optical frequency division with femtosecond mode-locked lasers. However, their typical repetition rates of hundreds of MHz require multiplication methods to reach the microwave domain. Here, we introduce a miniaturized photonic integrated circuit-based interleaver, achieving a 64-fold multiplication of the repetition rate from 216 MHz to 14 GHz in Ku-Band. With the interleaver, the generated microwave power was improved by 35 dB, with a phase noise floor reduced by more than 10 folds by alleviating photodetector saturation. Based on a low-loss and high-density Si

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