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arXiv:2104.13477 · Journal of Lightwave Technology

Branching Optical Frequency Transfer With Enhanced Post Automatic Phase Noise Cancellation

Ruimin Xue, Liang Hu, Jianguo Shen, Jianping Chen, Guiling Wu

Published Apr 28, 2021• 18 citations
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Abstract

We present a technique for coherence transfer of laser light through a branching fiber link, where the optical phase noise induced by environmental perturbations via the fiber link is passively compensated by remote users without the requirements of any active servo components. At each remote site, an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) is simultaneously taken as a frequency distinguisher for distinguishing its unique frequency from other sites' and as an optical actuator for compensating the phase noise coming from the optical fiber. With this configuration, we incorporate a long outside loop path consisting of a fiber-pigtailed AOM into the loop, enabling the significant reduction of the outside loop phase noise in the passive way. To further address the residual out-of-loop phase noise coming from the interferometer and the two-way optical frequency comparison setup, we design a low-noise active temperature stabilization system. Measurements with a back-to-back system show that the stability in our stabilization system is 2×10-16at 1 s, reaching 2×10-20after 10,000s. Adopting these techniques, we demonstrate transfer of a laser light through a branching fiber network with 50 km and 145 km two fiber links. After being compensated for the 145 km fiber link, the relative frequency instability is 3.4×10-15at the 1 s averaging time and scales down to 3.7×10-19at the 10,000 s averaging time. This proposed technique is suitable for the simultaneous transfer of an optical signal to a number of independent users within a local area.

DOI
10.1109/jlt.2021.3076182

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We report a technique for coherence transfer of laser light through a fiber link, where the optical phase noise induced by environmental perturbations via the fiber link is compensated by remote users with passive phase noise correction, rather than at the local site as is conventional. Neither phase discrimination nor active phase tracking is required due to the open-loop design, mitigating some technical problems such as the limited compensation speed and the finite compensation precision as conventional active phase noise cancellation. We theoretically analyze and experimentally demonstrate that the delay-limited residual fiber phase noise after phase noise compensation is a factor of seven higher than the conventional techniques. Using this technique, we demonstrate the transfer laser light through a 145-km-long, lab-based spooled fiber. After being compensated, a relative frequency instability is 1.9 × 10-15at the integration time of 1 s and scales down to the level of 10-18-range at 10,000 s. The frequency uncertainty of the light after transferring through the fiber relative to that of the input light is (-0.36 ± 2.6) × 10-18. As the transmitted optical signal remains unaltered until it reaches the remote sites, it can be transmitted simultaneously to multiple remote sites on an arbitrarily complex fiber network, paving a way to develop a multi-node optical frequency dissemination system with post automatic phase noise correction for a number of end-users.
We present a technique for the coherence transfer of laser light through a fiber link, where the optical phase noise induced by environmental perturbation via the fiber link is compensated by remote users. When compensating the fiber noise by remote users, the time base at the remote site independent from that at the local site does not destroy the performance of the fiber output light. Using this technique, we demonstrate the transfer of subhertz-linewidth laser light through a 25-km-long, lab-based spooled fiber. After being compensated, the relative linewidth between the fiber input and output light is 1 mHz, and the relative frequency instability is 4×10−17 at 1 s averaging time and scales down to 2×10−19 at 800 s averaging time. The frequency uncertainty of the light after transferring through the fiber relative to that of the input light is 3.0×10−19. This system is suitable for the simultaneous transfer of an optical signal to a number of end users within a city.
In this paper, we present a remote time-base-free technique for a coherent optical frequency transfer system via fiber.At the remote site, the thermal noise of the optical components is corrected along with the link phase noise caused by environmental effects.In this system, a 1 × 2 acousto-optic modulator (AOM) is applied at the remote site, with the first light being used to eliminate the noise of the remote time base and interface with remote users while the zeroth light is used to establish an active noise canceling loop.With this technique, a 10 MHz commercial oscillator, used as a time base at the remote site, does not contribute to the noise of the transferred signal.An experimental system is constructed using a 150 km fiber spool to validate the proposed technique.After compensation, the overlapping Allan deviation of the transfer link is 7.42 × 10 -15 at 1 s integration time and scales down to 1.07 × 10 -18 at 10,000 s integration time.The uncertainty of the transmitted optical frequency is on the order of a few 10 -19 .This significantly reduces the time-base requirements and costs for multi-user applications without compromising transfer accuracy.Meanwhile, these results show great potential for transferring ultra-stable optical frequency signals to remote sites, especially for point-to-multi-users.
Optical fibers have been recognized as one of the most promising host material for high phase coherence optical frequency transfer over thousands of kilometers. In the pioneering work, the active phase noise cancellation (ANC) technique has been widely used for suppressing the fiber phase noise introduced by the environmental perturbations, in which an ideal phase detector with high resolution and unlimited detection range is needed to extract the fiber phase noise, in particular for noisy fiber links. We demonstrate the passive phase noise cancellation (PNC) technique without the need of phase detector could be preferable for noisy fiber links. To avoid the effect of the radio frequency (RF) from the time base at the local site in the conventional active or passive phase noise cancellation techniques, here we introduce a fiber-pigtailed acousto-optic modulator (AOM) with two diffraction order outputs (0 and +1 order) with properly allocating the AOM-driving frequencies allowing to cancel the time base effect. Using this technique, we demonstrate transfer of coherent light through a 260 km noisy urban fiber link. The results show the effect of the RF reference can be successfully removed. After being passively compensated, {we demonstrate a fractional frequency instability of 4.9×10−144.9\times10^{-14}4.9×10−14 at the integration time of 1 s and scales down to 10−2010^{-20}10−20 level at 10,000 s in terms of modified Allan deviation over the 260 km noisy urban fiber link}. The frequency uncertainty of the retrieved light after transferring through this noise-compensated fiber link relative to that of the input light achieves (0.41±4.7)×10−18(0.41\pm4.7)\times10^{-18}(0.41±4.7)×10−18. The proposed technique opens a way to a broad distribution of an ultrastable frequency reference with high coherence without any effects coming from the RF reference and enables a wide range of applications beyond metrology over fiber networks.
SummaryOptical fibers have been regarded as one of the most promising materials for coherent optical frequency dissemination over thousands of kilometers. For suppressing the fiber-induced phase noise along the fiber network, we demonstrate the passive phase noise cancellation (PNC) technique without the need of phase detector could be preferable for noisy fiber links. A fiber-pigtailed acousto-optic modulator (AOM) with two diffraction order outputs (0 and -1 order) has been installed at the local site and been employed as the phase compensated device in the optical frequency transfer system. With a 550 km noisy fiber link, we demonstrate a fractional transfer frequency instability of 1.3 × 10-14at the integration time of 1 s and scales down to 5.5 × 10-19at 10,000 s in terms of modified Allan deviation.
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