Cascaded multiplexed optical link on a telecommunication network for frequency dissemination

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 16849-16857

  Lopez, Olivier ^a   Haboucha, Adil ^b   Kéfélian, Fabien ^a   Jiang, Haifeng ^b   Chanteau, Bruno ^a   Roncin, Vincent ^a   Chardonnet, Christian ^a   Amy Klein, Anne ^a   Santarelli, Giorgio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE MÉTROLOGIE ET D ESSAIS LNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; INTERNET; MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL LINKS; OVERVOLTAGE PROTECTION;

COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; DATA TRAFFIC; FRACTIONAL FREQUENCIES; MEASUREMENT TIME; NOISE COMPENSATION; OPTICAL ADD-DROP MULTIPLEXERS; OPTICAL CLOCKS; OPTICAL REFERENCE SIGNALS; OPTICAL REGENERATION; REPEATER STATION; TWO-LINK; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING TECHNOLOGY;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERNET; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; OPTICAL FIBERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77955633244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016849     Document Type: Article

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