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APPLIED OPTICS
Volume 57, Issue 25, Pages 7203-7210Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/AO.57.007203
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- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) (Equipex REFIMEVE+) [ANR-11-EQPX-0039]
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We report on a fully bidirectional 680 km fiber link connecting two cities for which the equipment, the setup, and the characterization are managed for the first time by an industrial consortium. The link uses an active telecommunication fiber network with parallel data traffic and is equipped with three repeater laser stations and four remote double bidirectional erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. We report a short-term stability at 1 s integration time of 5.4 x 10(-16) in 0.5 Hz bandwidth and a long-term stability of 1.7 x 10(-20) at 65,000 s of integration time. The accuracy of the frequency transfer is evaluated as 3 x 10(-20). No shift is observed within the statistical uncertainty. We show a continuous operation over five days with an uptime of 99.93%. This performance is comparable with the state-of-the-art coherent links established by National Metrology Institutes in Europe. It is a first step in the construction of an optical fiber network for metrology in France, which will give access to an ultrahigh performance frequency standard to a wide community of scientific users. (C) 2018 Optical Society of America
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