Abstract

A multiple-access underwater frequency transfer scheme using terminal phase compensation is demonstrated. With this scheme, a highly stable 100 MHz frequency signal was disseminated over a 3 m underwater link for 5000 s. The timing fluctuation and fractional frequency instability were both measured and analyzed. The experimental results show that with the phase compensation technique, the total root-mean-square (RMS) timing fluctuation is about 3 ps, and the fractional frequency instabilities are on the order of ${5.9} \times {{1}}{{{0}}^{- 13}}$ at 1 s and ${5.3} \times {{1}}{{{0}}^{- 15}}$ at 1000 s. The experiment results indicate that the proposed frequency transfer technique has a potential application of disseminating an atomic clock to multiple terminals.

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