Joint transfer of time and frequency signals and multi-point synchronization via fiber network

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/25/1/014206

Abstract

A system of jointly transferring time signals with a rate of 1 pulse per second (PPS) and frequency signals of 10 MHz via a dense wavelength division multiplex-based (DWDM) fiber is demonstrated in this paper. The noises of the fiber links are suppressed and compensated for by a controlled fiber delay line. A method of calibrating and characterizing time is described. The 1PPS is synchronized by feed-forward calibrating the fiber delays precisely. The system is experimentally examined via a 110 km spooled fiber in laboratory. The frequency stabilities of the user end with compensation are 1.8× 10^-14 at 1 s and 2.0× 10^-17 at 10⁴ s average time. The calculated uncertainty of time synchronization is 13.1 ps, whereas the direct measurement of the uncertainty is 12 ps. Next, the frequency and 1PPS are transferred via a metropolitan area optical fiber network from one central site to two remote sites with distances of 14 km and 110 km. The frequency stabilities of 14 km link reach 3.0× 10^-14 averaged in 1 s and 1.4× 10^-17 in 10⁴ s respectively; and the stabilities of 110 km link are 8.3× 10^-14 and 1.7× 10^-17, respectively. The accuracies of synchronization are estimated to be 12.3 ps for the 14 km link and 13.1 ps for the 110 km link, respectively.

Keywords: joint time and frequency transfer optical compensation time synchronization

Received: 23 June 2015
Revised: 02 September 2015
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PACS:	42.62.Eh	(Metrological applications; optical frequency synthesizers for precision spectroscopy)
	42.79.Sz	(Optical communication systems, multiplexers, and demultiplexers?)
	06.30.Ft	(Time and frequency)
	07.60.Vg	(Fiber-optic instruments)

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61405227).

Corresponding Authors: You-Zhen Gui, Hai-Wen Cai
E-mail: yzgui@siom.ac.cn;hwcai@siom.ac.cn

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Nan Cheng(程楠), Wei Chen(陈炜), Qin Liu(刘琴), Dan Xu(徐丹), Fei Yang(杨飞), You-Zhen Gui(桂有珍), Hai-Wen Cai(蔡海文) Joint transfer of time and frequency signals and multi-point synchronization via fiber network 2016 Chin. Phys. B 25 014206

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