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Fiber-optic transmission systems are leveraged not only as high-speed communication channels but also as nonlinear kernel functions for machine learning computations, enabling the seamless integration of computational intelligence and…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-05 Jiahao Zhang , Lu Zhang , Xiaodan Pang , Oskars Ozolins , Qun Zhang , Xianbin Yu

The fast Fourier transform, FFT, is a useful and prevalent algorithm in signal processing. It characterizes the spectral components of a signal, or is used in combination with other operations to perform more complex computations such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-08 Hani Nejadriahi , David HillerKuss , Jonathan K. George , Volker J. Sorger

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…

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 demonstrate the capability of accurate time transfer using optical fibers over long distances utilizing a dark fiber and hardware which is usually employed in two-way satellite time and frequency transfer (TWSTFT). Our time transfer…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-25 M. Rost , D. Piester , W. Yang , T. Feldmann , T. Wübbena , A. Bauch

The main issue in the optical transmission is switching speed. The optical packet switching faces many significant challenges in processing and buffering. The generalized multilevel protocol switching seeks to eliminate the asynchronous…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Ravinder Yadav , Rinkle Rani Aggarwal

We report on the realization of a novel fiber-optic radio frequency (RF) transfer scheme with the bidirectional frequency division multiplexing (FDM) dissemination technique. Here, the proper bidirectional frequency map used in the forward…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-07-07 Qi Li , Liang Hu , jinbo Zhang , Jianping Chen , Guiling Wu

We transferred the frequency of an ultra-stable laser over a 108 km urban fiber link comprising 22 km of optical communications network fiber simultaneously carrying Internet data traffic. The metrological signal and the digital data signal…

Today's high-capacity telecommunication systems are unimaginable without the use of optical fibres and accompanying optical components which are briefly presented in this paper with an accent on the receivers of optical signal. An overview…

Optics · Physics 2009-12-14 Natasa Zivic

Future free-space optical clock networks will require optical links for time and frequency transfer. In many potential realizations of these networks, these links will extend over long distances and will span moving platforms, e.g.…

Fiber-optical networks are a crucial telecommunication infrastructure in society. Wavelength division multiplexing allows for transmitting parallel data streams over the fiber bandwidth, and coherent detection enables the use of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Lars Lundberg , Mikael Mazur , Ali Mirani , Benjamin Foo , Jochen Schröder , Victor Torres-Company , Magnus Karlsson , Peter A. Andrekson

Time-frequency packing (TFP) transmission provides the highest achievable spectral efficiency with a constrained symbol alphabet and detector complexity. In this work, the application of the TFP technique to fiber-optic systems is…

Single-mode optical fiber is a highly efficient connecting medium, used not only for optical telecommunications but also for the dissemination of ultra-stable frequencies or timing signals. In 1994, Ma, Jungner, Ye and Hall described a…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-17 Gesine Grosche

We demonstrate the long-distance transmission of an ultra-stable optical frequency derived directly from a state-of-the-art optical frequency standard. Using an active stabilization system we deliver the frequency via a 146 km long…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-13 G. Grosche , O. Terra , K. Predehl , R. Holzwarth , B. Lipphardt , F. Vogt , U. Sterr , H. Schnatz

The fundamental concepts and challenges of orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation have been reviewed in Part I of this three-part tutorial. In this second part, we provide an overview of the state-of-the-art transceiver designs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Shuangyang Li , Weijie Yuan , Zhiqiang Wei , Robert Schober , Giuseppe Caire

Timing requirements for long-range quantum networking are driven by the necessity of synchronizing the arrival of photons, from independent sources, for Bell-state measurements. Thus, characteristics such as repetition rate and pulse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 Randy Lafler , R. Nicholas Lanning

In the tradition of Gabor's 1946 landmark paper [1], we advocate a time-frequency (TF) approach to communications. TF methods for communications have been proposed very early (see the box History). While several tutorial papers and book…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-19 Gerald Matz , Helmut Bölcskei , Franz Hlawatsch

The remarkable frequency stability of resonant systems in the optical domain (optical cavities and atomic transitions) can be harnessed at frequency scales accessible by electronics using optical frequency division. This capability is…

Multimode optical fibers represent the ideal platform for transferring multidimensional light states. However, dispersion degrades the correlations between the light's degrees of freedom, thus limiting the effective transport of ultrashort…

We derive relativistic corrections for one-way and two-way time and frequency transfer over optical fibres neglecting no terms that exceed 1 ps in time and $10^{-18}$ in fractional frequency, and estimate their magnitude in typical fibre…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-18 J Geršl , P Delva , P Wolf