High-Precision Time-Frequency Signal Simultaneous Transfer System via a WDM-Based Fiber Link

Autor: Ruifang Dong, Qi Zang, Chen Faxi, Xue Deng, Tao Liu, Honglei Quan, Xiang Zhang, Zhao Kan, Wenxiang Xue, Shougang Zhang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Photonics, Vol 8, Iss 325, p 325 (2021)
Photonics
Volume 8
Issue 8
ISSN: 2304-6732
Popis: In this paper, we demonstrate a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) based system for simultaneously delivering ultrastable optical frequency reference, 10 GHz microwave frequency reference, and one pulse per second (1 PPS) time signal via a 50 km fiber network. For each signal, a unique noise cancellation technique is used to maintain the precision of them. After being compensated, the transfer frequency instability in terms of overlapping Allan deviation (OADEV) for the optical frequency achieves 2E-17/s and scales down to 2E-20/10000 s, which for the 10 GHz microwave reference approaches 4E-15/s and decreases to 1.4E-17/10000 s, and the time uncertainty of the 1 PPS time signal along the system is 2.08 ps. In this scheme, specific channels of WDM are respectively occupied for different signals to avoid the possible crosstalk interference effect between the transmitted reference signals. To estimate the performance of the above scheme, independent of these signals is also demonstrated in this 50 km link, the results are similar to that in the case of simultaneous delivery. This work shows that the WDM-based system is a promising method for building a nationwide time and frequency fiber transfer system with a communication optical network.
11 pages,4 figures,1 table
Databáze: OpenAIRE