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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

By using two-way frequency transfer, we demonstrate ultra-high resolution comparison of optical frequencies over a telecommunication fiber link of 100 km operating simultaneously digital data transfer. We first propose and experiment a…

We demonstrate the distribution of single-photon-level pulses from a mode-locked laser source over a phase-stable fiber link, achieving an optical timing jitter of less than 100 as over 10 minutes of data accumulation. This stability…

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

We present the first experimental demonstration over a 43-km-long urban fiber network of a local two-way optical frequency comparison, which does not require any synchronization of the measurements. It was combined with a regular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Won-Kyu Lee , Fabio Stefani , Anthony Bercy , Olivier Lopez , Anne Amy-Klein , Paul-Eric Pottie

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 transferred the frequency of an ultra-stable laser over 86 km of urban fiber. The link is composed of two cascaded 43-km fibers connecting two laboratories, LNE-SYRTE and LPL in Paris area. In an effort to realistically demonstrate a…

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 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

Over the past decade, fiber based frequency dissemination has achieved significant progresses in following aspects. To study the dissemination stability and phase noise specifications of the fiber-cascaded RF frequency dissemination system,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-04-21 C. Gao , B. Wang , Xi. Zhu , Y. B. Yuan , L. J. Wang

We demonstrate a frequency synchronization scheme with the phase noise compensation function placed at the client site. One transmitting module hence can be linked with multiple client sites. As a performance test, using two separate 50 km…

Optics · Physics 2014-09-12 Bo Wang , Xi Zhu , Chao Gao , Yu Bai , Jing Miao , Lijun Wang

In this paper we propose a simple method to reject the high-frequency noise in the evaluation of statistical uncertainty of coherent optical fiber links. Specifically, we propose a preliminary data filtering, separated from the frequency…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-07-03 Claudio Eligio Calosso , Cecilia Clivati , Salvatore Micalizio

We study the use of separate cores of a multicore erbium-doped fiber amplifier (MC-EDFA) in a noise-canceled link for ultrastable optical frequency transfer. We demonstrate fractional frequency instability of $5\times10^{-19}$ at 1000 s…

We describe a fiber-optic solution for simultaneous distribution of all signals generated at todays most advanced time and frequency laboratories, i.e. an ultrastable optical reference frequency derived from an optical atomic clock, a radio…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 P. Krehlik , H. Schnatz , L. Sliwczynski

High-precision optical pulse trains distribution via fibre links has made huge impacts in many fields. In most published works, the accuracies are still fundamentally limited by some unavoidable noises, such as thermal and shot noise from…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-25 B. Ning , S. Y. Zhang , D. Hou , J. T. Wu , Z. B. Li , J. Y. Zhao

We present a compact and robust transportable ultra-stable laser system with minimum fractional frequency instability of $1\times10^{-15}$ at integration times between 1 to 10 s. The system was conceived as a prototype of a subsystem of a…

We present an hybrid fiber link combining effective optical frequency transfer and evaluation of performances with a self-synchronized two-way comparison. It enables us to detect the round-trip fiber noise and each of the forward and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-29 Dan Xu , Won-kyu Lee , Fabio Stefani , Olivier Lopez , Anne Amy-Klein , Paul-eric Pottie

In this work we demonstrate for the first time that it is possible to transfer simultaneously an ultra-stable optical frequency and a precise and accurate timing over 540 km using a public telecommunication optical fiber networks with…

In this letter, we report on all-optical fiber approach to the generation of ultra-low noise microwave signals. We make use of two erbium fiber mode-locked lasers phase locked to a common ultra-stable laser source to generate an 11.55 GHz…

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…