Transmission of timing references to sub-picosecond precision over optical fiber

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3357, Issue , 1998, Pages 691-701

  D'Addario, Larry R ^a   Stennes, Michael J ^b  

^a NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical fiber; Radio interferometry; Reference; Timing

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; HYDROGEN; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; JITTER; MODULATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHASE NOISE; RADIO RECEIVERS; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SYSTEM STABILITY; TELESCOPES; TIME MEASUREMENT;

DIODE LASERS; FIBER LENGTHS; FIBER-OPTIC SYSTEMS; HYDROGEN MASERS; INTENSITY MODULATION (IM); LOCAL OSCILLATOR (LO); MILLIMETER WAVE LENGTHS; OFFSET FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL FIBER; PATH LENGTHS; PHASE DRIFTS; POST PROCESSING; PROCESSING ELECTRONICS; RADIO INTERFEROMETRY; REFERENCE; REFERENCE FREQUENCY; TIME CORRECTION; TIMING; TIMING NOISE; TIMING REFERENCE (TR);

PHASE STABILITY;

EID: 0010419456     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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