https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530050085
Transmission of an optical frequency through a 3 km long optical fiber
Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, École Normale Supérieure
and Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Laboratoire
associé au CNRS URA 18) ,
4 place Jussieu, Tour 12 E01, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Laboratoire Primaire du Temps et des Fréquences,
Bureau National de Métrologie-Observatoire de Paris,
61 avenue de l'Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France
Corresponding author: a biraben@spectro.jussieu.fr
Received:
23
October
1997
Accepted:
18
November
1997
Published online: 15 February 1998
A 3 km long optical fiber is used to connect two laboratories in Paris. We present the metrological properties of this optical link to transfer an optical frequency standard at 778 nm and we show that the frequency shift introduced by the fiber is only of few Hz.
PACS: 06.30.Ft – Time and frequency / 42.79.Sz – Optical communication systems, multiplexers, and demultiplexers / 42.81.Dp – Propagation, scattering, and losses; solitons
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 1998
