Didier Juges wrote: > This is somewhat off topic, but still a matter of precision timing. > > A friend of mine wants to send a 3 GHz LO signal up a fiber optic cable. > > I know there have been threads dealing with transmission of precise > timing signals over fiber optics, and I hope I can get some suggestions > where to look for more info. > > I have found lots of links to high data rate laser transceivers, but > while they all tout the high data rate, there is little specified about > delay, and jitter is not very good, so it seems as a minimum he would > need a clean-up PLL at the receive end. My initial recommendation was to > send a precise 10 MHz (where did that come from?) via coax and have a > synthesizer at the receive end, but he is trying to minimize the amount > of hardware there. > > Thanks in advance, > > Didier KO4BB > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > Didier
The usual technique is to use an acoustoptic modulator to produce an output with frequency componenets at fl and fl + 3GHz. Bruce _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
