GVD-insensitive stable radio frequency phase dissemination for arbitrary-access loop link.
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a stable radio frequency (RF) phase dissemination scheme for a long-haul optical ﬁber loop link based on frequency mixing. Using a single optical source in both directions of the loop link, additional timing jitter caused by group velocity dispersion (GVD) can be eliminated. Impressive scalability provided by the optical link ensures that arbitrary-access node can obtain an RF signal with a stabilized phase to meet the requirements of multiple users. In our experiment, a 2.4 GHz RF signal is distributed to arbitrary points along a 100 km ﬁber-optic loop link steadily. Stabilities of the recovered signals from two accessing nodes are recorded. The root-mean-square (RMS) phase jitter of the received signal at either accessing node is reduced from 1.87 rad to no more than 0.027 rad during 1800-second measuring time.
Chenxia
C
Liu
Tianwei
T
Jiang
Mingshu
M
Chen
Song
S
Yu
Ruihuan
R
Wu
Jianming
J
Shang
Jitong
J
Duan
Wanyi
W
Gu