Takuma Nakamura

  • Senior Research Fellow
  • PRECISION PHOTONICS SYNTHESIS GROUP

Project Description

This experimental research will focus the development and testing of optical frequency comb-based systems for low noise microwave generation, advancing NIST interests in next-generation ultrastable frequency sources. Achieving this will entail assembly of microwave components, design of electro-optic systems, as well as data acquisition and analysis. Additionally, this project will involve optical frequency comb operation and precision phase and frequency measurements of stable optical signals using a frequency comb.

Research Interests

Frequency combs, ultrafast lasers, microwave photonics, nonlinear optics, PZT

Selected Publications

Takuma Nakamura et al., Coherent optical clock down-conversion for microwave frequencies with 10−18 instability.Science 368 ,889-892(2020).DOI: