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High-precision time transfer is of fundamental interest in physics and metrology. Quantum time transfer technologies that use frequency-entangled pulses and their coincidence detection have been proposed, offering potential enhancements in…

We implement and experimentally demonstrate a 60 GHz distributed system leveraging an optical time synchronization system that provides precise time and frequency alignment between independent elements of the distributed mesh. Utilizing…

Phase, time, and frequency coordination are crucial for the coherent operation of distributed antenna arrays. This paper demonstrates a high accuracy decentralized time synchronization method for arrays with dynamic connectivity. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Naim Shandi , Jason M. Merlo , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

We demonstrate a wireless, decentralized time-alignment method for distributed antenna arrays and distributed wireless networks that achieves picosecond-level synchronization. Distributed antenna arrays consist of spatially separated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Naim Shandi , Jason M. Merlo , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

Optical time-frequency transfer establishes the metrological linkage in large-scale clock networks, which facilitates various applications. Fiber-based transfer benefits from the abundant deployment of fiber infrastructures to achieve this…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-21 Ziyang Chen , Yufei Zhang , Bin Luo , Hong Guo

We report on a fully bi-directional 680~km fiber link connecting two cities for which the equipment, the set up and the characterization are managed for the first time by an industrial consortium. The link uses an active telecommunication…

We present measurements of the frequency transfer stability and analysis of the noise characteristics of an optical signal propagating over aerial suspended fiber links up to 153.6 km in length. The measured frequency transfer stability…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-12 David Gozzard , Sascha Schediwy , Bruce Wallace , Romeo Gamatham , Keith Grainge

As a new approach to realizing high-precision time synchronization between remote time scales, quantum two-way time transfer via laboratory fiber link has shown significant enhancement of the transfer stability to several tens of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Huibo Hong , Runai Quan , Xiao Xiang , Yuting Liu , Tao Liu , Mingtao Cao , Ruifang Dong , Shougang Zhang

Accurate time synchronization is essential for Internet of Things (IoT) systems, where multiple distributed nodes must share a common time base for coordinated sensing and data fusion. However, conventional synchronization approaches suffer…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ziyao Zhou , Tiancheng Cao , Chen Shen , Jiaqi Zhang , Yuting Liu , Hen-Wei Huang

The way in which different types of dynamics unfold in complex networks is intrinsically related to the propagation of activation along nodes, which is strongly affected by the network connectivity. In this work we investigate to which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-11-25 Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Time and frequency transfer lies at the heart of the field of metrology. Compared to current microwave dissemination such as GPS, optical domain dissemination can provide more than one order of magnitude in terms of higher accuracy, which…

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

Optical frequency transfer provides the means for high-fidelity frequency transfer across thousands of kilometers. A critical step in the further developing optical frequency transfer is its capability to transfer a high spectral purity…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-25 Liang Hu , Xueyang Tian , Long Wang , Guiling Wu , Jianping Chen

Dynamical processes taking place on networks have received much attention in recent years, especially on various models of random graphs (including small world and scale free networks). They model a variety of phenomena, including the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jonathan Rowe , Boris Mitavskiy

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

The communication range of wireless networks can be greatly improved by using distributed beamforming from a set of independent radio nodes. One of the key challenges in establishing a beamformed communication link from separate radios is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-06 Han Yan , Samer Hanna , Kevin Balke , Riten Gupta , Danijela Cabric

We study the dynamics of networks with coupling delay, from which the connectivity changes over time. The synchronization properties are shown to depend on the interplay of three time scales: the internal time scale of the dynamics, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-26 Otti D'Huys , Javier Rodríguez-Laguna , Manuel Jiménez , Elka Korutcheva , Wolfgang Kinzel

Distributed wireless clock synchronization is essential for aligning the clocks of distributed transceivers in support of joint transmission and reception techniques. One recently explored method involves synchronizing distributed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Kumar Sai Bondada , Hiten Kothari , Yibin Liang , Daniel J. Jakubisin , R. Michael Buehrer

We report the first demonstration of a long-distance ultra stable frequency dissemination in the microwave range. A 9.15 GHz signal is transferred through a 86-km urban optical link with a fractional frequency stability of 1.3x10-15 at 1 s…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 O. Lopez , A. Amy-Klein , M. Lours , Ch. Chardonnet , G. Santarelli

Results for estimating the convergence rate of non-stationary distributed consensus algorithms are provided, on the basis of qualitative (mainly topological) as well as basic quantitative information (lower-bounds on the matrix entries).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-12-22 David Angeli , Pierre-Alexandre Bliman