Title :
High-performance free-space photonic links for frequency/time transfer
Author :
Newbury, Nathan R. ; Giorgetta, Fabrizio R. ; Swann, William ; Sinclair, Laura ; Baumann, Esther ; Coddington, Ian
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
We discuss optical two-way time and frequency transfer over air to connect remote optical clocks/oscillators. This method can link remote sites with a residual timing noise of femtoseconds and a residual fractional accuracy below 10-18.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; optical links; optical noise; oscillators; high-performance free-space photonic links; optical two-way frequency transfer; optical two-way time transfer; remote optical clocks; remote optical oscillators; residual timing noise; Clocks; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Timing; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Bellevue, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1506-8
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656504
