Passive phase noise compensation for fiber-optic radio frequency transfer with a nonsynchronized source

Tiancheng Lin; Guiling Wu; Hongwei Li; Guoyong Wang; Jianping Chen

doi:10.3788/COL201816.100602

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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 16, Issue 10, 100602 (2018)

Passive phase noise compensation for fiber-optic radio frequency transfer with a nonsynchronized source

Tiancheng Lin¹, Guiling Wu^1,2,*, Hongwei Li¹, Guoyong Wang³, and Jianping Chen^1,2

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¹State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

²Shanghai Key Laboratory of Navigation and Location-Based Services, Shanghai 200240, China

³China Academy of Space Technology (Xi’an), Xi’an 710000, China

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Tiancheng Lin, Guiling Wu, Hongwei Li, Guoyong Wang, Jianping Chen, "Passive phase noise compensation for fiber-optic radio frequency transfer with a nonsynchronized source," Chin. Opt. Lett. 16, 100602 (2018) Copy Citation Text

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Abstract

We propose a passive compensation fiber-optic radio frequency (RF) transfer scheme with a nonsynchronized RF stable source during a round-trip time, which can avoid high-precision phase-locking and efficiently suppress the effect of backscattering only using two wavelengths at the same time. A stable frequency signal is directly reproduced by frequency mixing at the remote site. The proposed scheme is validated by the experiment over a 40 km single mode fiber spool using nonsynchronized common commercial RF sources. The influence of the stability of nonsynchronized RF sources on the frequency transfer is investigated over different length fiber links.