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arXiv:0907.3500 · Applied Physics B

High-resolution microwave frequency dissemination on an 86-km urban optical link

Olivier Lopez, Anne Amy‐Klein, M. Lours, Christian Chardonnet, Giorgio Santarelli

Published Nov 20, 2009• 172 citations
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10.1007/s00340-009-3832-1

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To synchronize standard frequency signals between long-distance laboratories, we carried out a frequency dissemination experiment over a 212 km cascaded urban fiber link. This cascaded link was composed of two 106 km fiber links, in which the fiber noise was compensated by two microwave frequency dissemination systems. The two adjacent frequency dissemination systems used different frequency transmitted signals, preventing the influence of signal crosstalk between the received signal of the previous stage and the transmitted signal of the second stage caused by microwave signal leakage. The frequency dissemination over the cascaded link showed a dissemination fractional frequency instability of 6.2 × 10−15 at 1 s and 6.4 × 10−18 at 40,000 s, which is better than the transfer stability over the same 212 km single-stage link.