A Novel Comb Generator for Frequency Phase Transfer
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| author | Montano, Gabriella Tong, Cheukyu Edward Marrone, Dan |
| author_facet | Montano, Gabriella Tong, Cheukyu Edward Marrone, Dan |
| contents | This paper presents the design and testing of a millimeter-wave frequency comb generator developed for the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) mission, a space Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) mission concept. The heart of BHEX is a dual-band receiver, centered at 90 and 270 GHz. This novel comb generator is based on a microwave phase modulator producing phase-coherent comb signals with multi-octave bandwidth, which will be used to track instrumental delays when injected into the receiver system. The comb generator was tested with astronomical receivers, which confirms its expected operation. |
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| spellingShingle | A Novel Comb Generator for Frequency Phase Transfer Montano, Gabriella Tong, Cheukyu Edward Marrone, Dan Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics This paper presents the design and testing of a millimeter-wave frequency comb generator developed for the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) mission, a space Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) mission concept. The heart of BHEX is a dual-band receiver, centered at 90 and 270 GHz. This novel comb generator is based on a microwave phase modulator producing phase-coherent comb signals with multi-octave bandwidth, which will be used to track instrumental delays when injected into the receiver system. The comb generator was tested with astronomical receivers, which confirms its expected operation. |
| title | A Novel Comb Generator for Frequency Phase Transfer |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.22161 |