Multi-node optical frequency dissemination with post automatic phase correction

Abstract

We report a technique for coherence transfer of laser light through a fiber link, where the optical phase noise induced by environmental perturbation via the fiber link is compensated by remote users with passive phase noise correction, rather than at the input as is conventional. Neither phase discrimination nor active phase tracking is required due to the open-loop design, mitigating some technical problems such as the limited compensation speed and the finite compensation precision as conventional active phase noise cancellation. We theoretically analyze and experimentally demonstrate that the delay effect introduced residual fiber phase noise after noise compensation is a factor of 7 higher than the conventional techniques. Using this technique, we demonstrate the transfer laser light through a 145-km-long, lab-based spooled fiber. After being compensated, the relative frequency instability in terms of overlapping Allan deviation is 1.9E-15 at 1s averaging time and scales down 5.3E-19 at 10,000 s averaging time. The frequency uncertainty of the light after transferring through the fiber relative to that of the input light is -0.36+-2.6E-18. As the transmitted optical signal remains unaltered until it reaches the remote sites, it can be transmitted simultaneously to multiple remote sites on an arbitrarily complex fiber network, paving a way to develop a multi-node optical frequency dissemination system with post automatic phase noise correction for a number of end users.

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