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Photonics and Fiber Technology Congress (ACOFT, BGPP, NP)

Long-distance fiber-optical transfer of a radio-frequency control signal for radio-astronomy and sensing applications

K. G. H. Baldwin, Yabai He, Brian J. Orr, Richard B. Warrington, Andre Nicholas Luiten, P. Mirtschin, Anastasios K. Tzioumis, Chris J. Phillips, Guido Aben, Thomas Newlands, Tim Rayner

Published Jan 1, 2016• 1 citation
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Abstract

Passive phase-conjugation enables precise fiber-optical transfer of radio-frequency reference signals over long distances, yielding high long-term stability for radio-astronomy and remote-sensing applications without active path-length stabilization.
DOI
10.1364/acoft.2016.at5c.2

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