Phase stabilized downlink transmission for wideband radio frequency signal via optical fiber link.

In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a phase stabilized wideband downlink transmission scheme, which directly transmits the received radio frequency (RF) signals from remote antennas to central station. A reference RF tone is round-trip transferred between the central station and remote end to obtain the delay variation caused by the fiber link. The delay variation is then used to alter a tunable laser. Since optical carriers with different wavelengths propagate at different velocities in fiber, a tunable optical delay line is realized to cancel the delay variation of the fiber link. The tunable delay range is in proportion to the length of the fiber link, which means a very long delivery distance can be expected. Experimentally, a RF signal at frequency of 2.50 GHz has been downlink transferred through a 45 km fiber link, with stability of 3.3 x 10⁻¹³ at 1 s and 7.5 x 10⁻¹⁷ at 10⁴s.

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