Abstract

In this Letter, we propose a fiber-optic radio frequency (RF) transfer based on active phase noise compensation adopting a carrier suppressed double-sideband (CSDSB) signal. The forward CSDSB signal is generated based on the transmitted RF signal at the local site to discriminate from the backward RF signal. The forward and backward signals are transmitted over the same fiber with the same wavelength to guarantee the bidirectional propagation symmetry. The impact of backscattering is efficiently suppressed by electrical filtering at the sites. A 1 GHz signal transfer over a 40 km optical link is performed in a laboratory. The results show that the proposed scheme can improve the short-term stability from $1.9\mathrm{e}-13/\mathrm{s}$ to $3.9\mathrm{e}-14/\mathrm{s}$ in contrast to the scheme with backscattering while reaching a long-term stability of $2.0\mathrm{e}-16/10000\mathrm{s}$.

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