Delay Effect on Coherent Transfer of Optical Frequency Based on a Triple-Pass Scheme**Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 61378037, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No JUSRP51628B.

Abstract

We demonstrate a triple-pass scheme for coherent transfer of optical frequency and the delay effect on the fiber phase noise compensation. It is theoretically proved that the delay effect consists of both fiber delay and servo delay. The delay effect confines the servo bandwidth within 1/8τ and induces a residual fiber phase noise after noise compensation. For a 25-km-long fiber, the servo bandwidth is found to be around 1 kHz, and the fiber phase noise is suppressed approaching to the theoretical limitation. The triple-pass scheme enables the simultaneous transfer of optical frequency to multiple remote users. The performance of noise compensator in the triple-pass scheme can achieve a similar level result compared with that in the double-pass scheme.