One-femtosecond, long-term stable remote laser synchronization over a 3.5-km fiber link

Long-term stable remote laser synchronization over a 3.5 km long polarization maintaining fiber link is demonstrated. The residual rms-timing jitter and drift over 36-hour operation is 0.96 fs integrated from 100 μHz to 1 MHz.

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