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Transmission of Multiple Signals through an Optical Fiber Using Wavefront Shaping
Published on: March 20, 2017
A simple-architecture fibered transmission system for dissemination of high stability 100 MHz signals
A Bakir1, C Rocher1, B Maréchal1
1FEMTO-ST, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, CNRS, ENSMM, 26 Rue de l'Épitaphe, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France.
Abstract:
We report on the development of a simple-architecture fiber-based frequency distribution system used to transfer high frequency stability 100 MHz signals. This work is focused on the emitter and the receiver performances that allow the transmission of the radio-frequency signal over an optical fiber. The system exhibits a residual fractional frequency stability of 1 × 10-14 at 1 s integration time and in the low 10-16 range after 100 s. These performances are suitable to transfer the signal of frequency references such as those of a state-of-the-art hydrogen maser without any phase noise compensation scheme. As an application, we demonstrate the dissemination of such a signal through a 100 m long optical fiber without any degradation. The proposed setup could be easily extended for operating frequencies in the 10 MHz-1 GHz range.
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