Fiber-optic Delay Lines

Fiber Optic Delay Line Systems

The 5017 delay lines system, incorporates a high-speed lasers and photodiodes to provide exceptionally high performance. The unit provides high bandwidth and sensitivity to operate with large delays, plus wide dynamic range for operation over a variety of loss budgets.

Rf and Microwave Fiber Optic Delay Line Techniques

Other delay line techniques include energy transfer methods such as crystal or glass substrates that generate acoustic waves. Here, electrical energy is converted to mechanical energy using a transducer. The energy moves through a medium at a speed related to properties of the material used to construct the delay line. Specific geometries of crystal or glass result in longer delays due to inter...

Design and Performance of Ka-Band Fiber-Optic Delay Lines

Remote Interrogation of WDM Fiber-Optic Intensity Sensors Deploying Delay Lines in the Virtual Domain

In this work a radio-frequency self-referencing WDM intensity-based fiber-optic sensor operating in reflective configuration and using virtual instrumentation is presented. The use of virtual delay lines at the reception stage, along with novel flexible self-referencing techniques, and using a single frequency, avoids all-optical or electrical-based delay lines approaches. This solution preserv...

Compensated Fiber-optic Frequency Distribution Equipment

One-way frequency distribution of atomic clock standards has been widely studied, and several architectures have emerged that employ the use of a return path signal to compensate for the effects of temperature and phase noise. These architectures have generally relied upon temperature-controlled delay lines to compensate for fiber thermal effects, and polarization scrambling techniques to minim...