Optical system design for femtosecond-level synchronization of clocks

Laura C. Sinclair; William C. Swann; Jean-Daniel Deschênes; Hugo Bergeron; Fabrizio R. Giorgetta; Esther Baumann; Michael Cermak; Ian Coddington; Nathan R. Newbury

doi:10.1117/12.2220191

7 March 2016 Optical system design for femtosecond-level synchronization of clocks

Laura C. Sinclair, William C. Swann, Jean-Daniel Deschênes, Hugo Bergeron, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Esther Baumann, Michael Cermak, Ian Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury

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Proceedings Volume 9763, Slow Light, Fast Light, and Opto-Atomic Precision Metrology IX; 976308 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2220191
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Synchronization of optical clocks via optical two-way time-frequency transfer across free-space links can result in time offsets between the two clocks below tens of femtoseconds over many hours. The complex optical system necessary to support such synchronization is described in detail here.

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Laura C. Sinclair, William C. Swann, Jean-Daniel Deschênes, Hugo Bergeron, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Esther Baumann, Michael Cermak, Ian Coddington, and Nathan R. Newbury "Optical system design for femtosecond-level synchronization of clocks", Proc. SPIE 9763, Slow Light, Fast Light, and Opto-Atomic Precision Metrology IX, 976308 (7 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2220191

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