Long-Term Time Transfer Stability of a Fiber Optic Link

Otokar Buzek

Abstract:	The paper is devoted to the study of the long-term stability of the propagation delay of a fiber optic timing link under real environmental conditions. The temperature dependence of the light propagation delay on surrounding temperature changes has been found as dominant. An appropriate method has been developed to correct mathematically the thermal delay variations in the fiber. After the correction for this temperature effect, only subnanosecond residual variations have remained.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 29th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting December 2 - 4, 1997 Sheraton Long Beach Hotel Long Beach, California
Pages:	405 - 414
Cite this article:	Buzek, Otokar, "Long-Term Time Transfer Stability of a Fiber Optic Link," Proceedings of the 29th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting, Long Beach, California, December 1997, pp. 405-414.
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