Delivery of high-stability optical and microwave frequency standards over an optical fiber network

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1459-1467

  Ye, Jun ^a   Peng, Jin Long ^a,d   Jones, R Jason ^a   Holman, Kevin W ^a   Hall, John L ^a   Jones, David J ^a   Diddams, Scott A ^b   Kitching, John ^b   Bize, Sebastien ^b   Bergquist, James C ^b   Hollberg, Leo W ^b   Robertsson, Lennart ^c   Ma, Long Sheng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c PAVILLON DE BRETEUIL   (France)

^d INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FREQUENCIES; MASERS; MICROWAVES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NOISE ABATEMENT;

FREQUENCY STANDARDS;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0042309872     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.001459     Document Type: Article

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