Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 42, Issue 23, 2306006(2022)

Optical Frequency Transfer over 60 km Urban Telecom Fiber Link

Pengcheng Fang1,2, Zhendi Cai1,2, Huanyao Sun1, Yan Wang1, Yanqi Xu1, and Qunfeng Chen1、*
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, Hubei , China
  • 2School of Physical Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    This paper demonstrates the coherent optical frequency transfer over a 60 km fiber link between Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Huazhong University of Science and Technology. A 1560 nm ultra-stable laser is used as the transfer laser, and an acousto-optic modulator is employed to actively compensate for the phase noise introduced by optical fibers to achieve noise suppression of 67 dB at 1 Hz Fourier frequency. The end-to-end transfer of the all-fiber structure is adopted by the system, and tracking oscillators are used to suppress the amplitude fluctuation of the beating signals caused by fiber polarization change. In this way, the system can operate without interruption all day. The optical frequency offset introduced by the link is at the order of magnitude of 10-20 in the four-day measurement, and the frequency instability is measured to be 2.4×10-17 in 1 s, 6.6×10-20 in 1000 s, and 6.5×10-21 in 65000 s. This result demonstrates the system is applicable for remote optical clock comparison.

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    Pengcheng Fang, Zhendi Cai, Huanyao Sun, Yan Wang, Yanqi Xu, Qunfeng Chen. Optical Frequency Transfer over 60 km Urban Telecom Fiber Link[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2022, 42(23): 2306006

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    Paper Information

    Category: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

    Received: Mar. 18, 2022

    Accepted: Jun. 15, 2022

    Published Online: Dec. 14, 2022

    The Author Email: Chen Qunfeng (qfchen@apm.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202242.2306006

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