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According to the principle of laser heterodyne interferometry, the distance change between the inter-satellite inertial references caused by the gravitational wave event is converted into the phase change of the heterodyne interference signal. The payload for measuring the phase change information is the phasemeter. The mission requires that the phasemeter\u2019s ranging accuracy is 1 picometer, and the corresponding phase measurement accuracy is required to reach 2\u03c0 \u03bcrad\/Hz1\/2 @(0.1 mHz\u20131 Hz). Due to the inter-satellite Doppler effect, the dynamic range of the interference signal frequency reaches 5 MHz to 25 MHz. Due to the sampling jitter noise of the interference signal, it is necessary to suppress the noise through a single pilot tone. This paper introduces the development of the phasemeter, which uses a single pilot tone to suppress sampling jitter noise. The test results show that when the dynamic range of the interference signal frequency is 5 MHz to 25 MHz, the phasemeter meets the mission indicator requirement of 2\u03c0 \u03bcrad\/Hz1\/2 @(0.1 mHz\u20131 Hz).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym17040519","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,31]],"date-time":"2025-03-31T05:21:04Z","timestamp":1743398464000},"page":"519","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Development of a Micro-Radian Phasemeter and Verification Based on Single Pilot Tone for Space Gravitational Wave Detection"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5933-1814","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tao","family":"Yu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Information Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China"},{"name":"Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7528-180X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ke","family":"Xue","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hongyu","family":"Long","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6548-4814","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mingzhong","family":"Pan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Photoelectric Engineering, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou 310024, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhi","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yunqing","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Information Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"43","DOI":"10.1016\/S0016-0032(37)90583-0","article-title":"On gravitational waves","volume":"223","author":"Einstein","year":"1937","journal-title":"J. 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