Ultra-precise timing and synchronization for large-scale scientific instruments
Abstract
Ultra-precise timing has become a prerequisite for many modern large-scale scientific instruments, and timing precision is a crucial enabling factor to achieve the ultimate goals of those instruments. Here, we review the recent progress in timing technologies, including timing characterization methods among different kinds of sources (optical lasers, microwaves and x-ray pulses), large-scale free-space timing synchronization, and fiber-based timing synchronization. Technical and fundamental limitations of fiber-based timing systems are also discussed to provide future directions.
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- Journal Name: Optica Journal Volume: 5 Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 2334-2536
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- Optical Society of America
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- 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; Optics
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Xin, Ming, Şafak, Kemal, and Kärtner, Franz X. Ultra-precise timing and synchronization for large-scale scientific instruments. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1364/OPTICA.5.001564.
Xin, Ming, Şafak, Kemal, & Kärtner, Franz X. Ultra-precise timing and synchronization for large-scale scientific instruments. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.5.001564
Xin, Ming, Şafak, Kemal, and Kärtner, Franz X. Wed .
"Ultra-precise timing and synchronization for large-scale scientific instruments". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.5.001564.
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abstractNote = {Ultra-precise timing has become a prerequisite for many modern large-scale scientific instruments, and timing precision is a crucial enabling factor to achieve the ultimate goals of those instruments. Here, we review the recent progress in timing technologies, including timing characterization methods among different kinds of sources (optical lasers, microwaves and x-ray pulses), large-scale free-space timing synchronization, and fiber-based timing synchronization. Technical and fundamental limitations of fiber-based timing systems are also discussed to provide future directions.},
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journal = {Optica},
number = 12,
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