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High-stability optical frequency comparison over fiber link enables the establishment of ultrastable optical clock networks, having the potential to promote a series of applications, including metrology, geodesy, and astronomy. In this…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-13 Long Wang , Ruimin Xue , Wenhai Jiao , Liang Hu Jianping Chen , Guiling Wu

Owing to the characteristics of ultra-low loss and anti-electromagnetic interference, using optical fiber to deliver time and frequency signal has been a preferred choice for high precise clock dissemination and comparison. As a brilliant…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-23 Wei Chen , Jialiang Wang , Qin Liu , Nan Cheng , Zitong Feng , Fei Yang , Youzhen Gui , Haiwen Cai

We describe and experimentally evaluate a stabilized radio-frequency transfer technique that employs optical phase sensing and optical phase actuation. This technique can be achieved by modifying existing stabilized optical frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 David Gozzard , Sascha Schediwy , Richard Whitaker , Keith Grainge

Optical fiber links are known as the most performing tools to transfer ultrastable frequency reference signals. However, these signals are affected by phase noise up to bandwidths of several kilohertz and a careful data processing strategy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-15 Claudio E. Calosso , Cecilia Clivati , Salvatore Micalizio

Stable dissemination of terahertz (THz) signals over long distances is important for next-generation synchronization networks, radio astronomy, and high-capacity wireless systems. Optical fiber provides a low-loss platform for coherent…

It is highly desired to operate a joint time and frequency transfer over the exiting fiber-optic telecom networks with the commercial data transmission. Previously, we proposed a time transfer scheme based on bidirectional time division…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-07-25 Hao Zhang , Guiling Wu , Xinwan Li , Jianping Chen

The transfer of high-precision optical frequency signals over free-space links, particularly between ground stations and satellites, will enable advances in fields ranging from coherent optical communications and satellite Doppler ranging…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-12 David Gozzard , Sascha Schediwy , Benjamin Stone , Michael Messineo , Michael Tobar

We demonstrate a method which can directly evaluate the radio frequency transfer quality via fiber links at the remote site. Coherent signals are first transferred to the same remote site via two stabilized fiber links. The two signals at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-28 Shanglin Li , Haoyuan Lu , Shuangyou Zhang , Dawei Li , Jianxiao Leng , Jianye Zhao

We demonstrate combined high-fidelity long-haul transfer of a linearly chirped, optical frequency and time transfer. In a proof-of-principle experiment we transfer an optical frequency with a linear chirp of around 238 kHz/s via a…

Optics · Physics 2014-03-04 S. M. F. Raupach , G. Grosche

We theoretically and experimentally investigate relevant noise processes arising in optical fiber links, which fundamentally limit their relative stability. We derive the unsuppressed delay noise for three configurations of optical links:…

We report a laser noise reduction method by locking it to an actively stabilized fiber-based Mach Zehnder interferometer with 10 km optical fiber to achieve large arm imbalance. An acousto optic modulator is used for interferometer…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-08 Dawei Li , Cheng Qian , Shanglin Li , Zhengbin Li , Jianye Zhao

Optical clock comparison via optical fibre links has been achieved over continental scales, but has not yet been demonstrated intercontinentally. The transfer of ultra-stable optical frequencies over transoceanic distances is a challenging…

Optical fiber links have demonstrated their ability to transfer the ultra-stable clock signals. In this paper we propose and demonstrate a new scheme to transfer both time and radio frequency with the same wavelength based on coherent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Jialiang Wang , Chaolei Yue , Yueli Xi , Yanguang Sun , Nan Cheng , Fei Yang , Mingyu Jiang , Jianfeng Sun , Youzhen Gui , Haiwen Cai

The distribution of ultra-narrow linewidth laser radiation is an integral part of many challenging metrological applications. Changes in the optical pathlength induced by environmental disturbances compromise the stability and accuracy of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-31 Benjamin Rauf , Maria Carmen Velez Lopez , Pierre Thoumany , Marco Pizzocaro , Davide Calonico

We experimentally demonstrate the enhanced atmospheric turbulence resiliency in a 137.8 Gbit/s/mode mode-division multiplexing free-space optical communication link through the application of a successive interference cancellation digital…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-04 Yiming Li , Zhaozhong Chen , Zhouyi Hu , David M. Benton , Abdallah A. I. Ali , Mohammed Patel , Martin P. J. Lavery , Andrew D. Ellis

We investigated the measurement floor and link stability for the transfer of an ultra-stable optical frequency via an optical fiber link. We achieved a near-delay-limited instability of 3x10^(-15)/(tau x Hz) for 147 km deployed fiber, and…

We demonstrate a remote microwave/radio-frequency (RF) transfer technique based on the stabilization of a fiber link using a fiber-loop optical-microwave phase detector (FLOM-PD). This method compensates for the excess phase fluctuations…

We present a detailed analysis of the end-user performance of the metrological signal at 1542 nm disseminated by the French national fibre network Refimeve, about 1000 km from the source. By the mean of a local ultrastable laser at 729 nm…

We demonstrate a fiber based multiple-access optical frequency dissemination scheme. Without using any additional laser sources, we reproduce the stable disseminated frequency at an arbitrary point of fiber link. Relative frequency…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Y. Bai , B. Wang , X. Zhu , C. Gao , J. Miao , L. J. Wang

Aerial suspended optical-fiber links are being considered as economical alternatives to buried links for long-distance transfer of coherent time and frequency signals. We present stability measurements of an actively stabilized 20 MHz…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-15 David Gozzard , Sascha Schediwy , Bruce Wallace , Romeo Gamatham , Keith Grainge