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Abstract
We demonstrate the transfer of a cesium frequency standard steered to UTC(NIST) over 20 km of dark telecom optical fiber. Our dissemination scheme uses an active stabilization technique with a phase-locked voltage-controlled oscillator. Out-of-loop characterization of the optical fiber link performance is done with dual-fiber and single-fiber transfer schemes. We observe a fractional frequency instability of 1.5 × 10−12 and 2 × 10−15 at averaging intervals of 1 s and 105 s, respectively, for the link. Both schemes are sufficient to transfer the cesium clock reference without degrading the signal, with nearly an order of magnitude lower fractional frequency instability than the cesium clocks over all time scales. The simplicity of the two-fiber technique may be useful in future long-distance applications where higher stability requirements are not paramount, as it avoids technical complications involved with the single-fiber scheme.
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