Remote transfer of a high-stability and ultralow-jitter timing signal.

@article{Holman2005RemoteTO,
  title={Remote transfer of a high-stability and ultralow-jitter timing signal.},
  author={Kevin W. Holman and Darren D. Hudson and Jun Ye and David J. Jones},
  journal={Optics letters},
  year={2005},
  volume={30 10},
  pages={
          1225-7
        }
}
Transfer of a high-stability and ultralow-jitter timing signal through a fiber network via a mode-locked fiber laser is demonstrated. With active cancellation of the fiber-transmission noise, the fractional instability for transfer of a radio-frequency signal through a 6.9- (4.5-) km round-trip installed (laboratory-based) fiber network is below 9(7) x 10(-15) tau(-1/2) for an averaging time tau > or = 1 s, limited by the noise floor of the frequency-counting system. The noise cancellation… 
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