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Buying Photonic Microwave Sources

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Related product category: RF over fiber systems

Photonic microwave sources generate ultrastable microwave signals with extremely low phase noise and high long-term frequency stability. They are based on ultrastable mode-locked laser systems, with applications in frequency metrology, navigation, and communications.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

As the most professional photonics purchasing portal, RP Photonics helps you to not only to find all relevant suppliers (not limited to our advertisers), but also to make good purchasing decisions.

NEW: Structured Decision Process

Purchasing involves a lot of responsibility. We recommend that you apply best practice by using the following structured process: Go through the following expandable sections, complete the form and finally come to a purchase decision. You can then print that to a PDF for documenting the process.

Our article on best practices for purchasing and another one explaining this tool give you valuable insights.

1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

Use the comprehensive resources of RP Photonics. Unfortunately, we do not have a specific article related to photonic microwave sources.

If you need personal help, contact RP Photonics to get technical consultancy.

I feel that I sufficiently understand the technical background.

2. Define your requirements

It is essential to fully understand and clearly define your requirements before you buy.

We recommend that you develop a list of clear specifications according to your specific needs, against which you can later check the suitability of found product offers:

To help you, we have already listed some aspects we recommend you consider when buying photonic microwave sources. Of course, there may be other aspects that are relevant to your specific case.

This list is for your own preparation, and can later (possibly in modified form) be used for quotation requests to suppliers.

I think that I am sufficiently informed about our requirements.

Otherwise, you will need to talk to your technical colleagues.

I consider the above list of specifications to be sufficiently complete, clear and accurate.

If you cannot sufficiently clarify your requirements, you may want to get technical consultancy from RP Photonics.

Insert these criteria when creating inquiry mails to suppliers with the buttons "Get quotation".

You find these buttons in the supplier list below or under "3. Find suitable suppliers".

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

Below, you can find our list of suppliers for photonic microwave sources. Use the checkboxes to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
The selected suppliers will appear below this list, along with your list of specifications. You can then indicate which specifications they meet according to your research. (You should finalize your specifications before doing this.)
Based on the results, you can finally choose a supplier that is hopefully a good enough fit.

Selected suppliers:

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Decision

The most suitable supplier you found:

Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

Suppliers for Photonic Microwave Sources

2 suppliers for photonic microwave sources are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Menlo Systems GmbH
Bunsenstr. 5
82152 Martinsried
Germany

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The idea to phase-coherently divide spectrally pure optical signals into the microwave domain was already envisioned in the very early stages of frequency comb development. Menlo Systems' Ultrastable Microwave System delivers ultralow phase noise microwave signals. The compact system is an all-in-one solution combining our robust ORS-Mini ultrastable laser, our SmartComb fully automated optical frequency comb, and a state-of-the-art radio-frequency extraction unit. It serves a broad range of applications including precision time and frequency metrology, deep space navigation, telecom and next generation wireless communication, and coherent radar.

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OEwaves, Inc.
United States