Time Transfer Using Frame Detection in Fiber-Optical Communication Networks: New Hardware
Paper in proceeding, 2011

In this paper, a new, recently developed hardware for time transfer using passive listening and detection of SDH frame headers in fiber-optical networks is described. The method has been presented earlier, and results, using prototype equipment and an experimental fiber-link, have shown that time transfer with a precision of the order of a few nanoseconds is possible over links with network distances exceeding 500 km. In order to further develop the method and make it available to regular users of time keeping equipment, it has been essential to minimize the space requirements of needed hardware and to make the implementation and installation more easily and straight forward. The new hardware is in this paper described in detail.

Author

R. T. Kenneth Jaldehag

Sven-Christian Ebenhag

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Carsten Rieck

Chalmers, Earth and Space Sciences

Per Olof E Hedekvist

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Frequency Control and the European Frequency and Time Forum (FCS), Joint Conference of the IEEE International

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Information and Communication Technology

Building Futures (2010-2018)

Subject Categories

Infrastructure Engineering

Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

Driving Forces

Innovation and entrepreneurship

Infrastructure

Onsala Space Observatory

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10/7/2017