摘要
随着时间频率的研究水平不断提高,实现比现有精度大幅度提高的新一代时间传递技术的研究受到广泛关注。激光脉冲时间传递作为目前自由空间时间传递精度最高的技术,其精度提高与采用的探测手段和脉冲光量子特性紧密关联。应用飞秒光频梳实现高精度时间传递是目前国际研究的一个新热点,近年来取得了许多突破性进展。在此基础上,量子优化的时间传递研究也随之展开。应用具有压缩特性的量子光频梳替代传统光频梳,将使时间延迟的测量精度突破散粒噪声极限。因此,基于量子测量和量子光频梳光源的量子优化在提高自由空间远程时间传递精度方面具有巨大应用潜力,是未来时间频率的高精度传输与比对技术的重要研究方向。
Accompanying with the remarkable improvements in the ability of generating and measuring high-accuracy time-frequency signal, seeking for new time-transfer techniques between distant clocks with much further improved accuracy attracts attentions world-widely. The time-transfer technique based on optical pulses has the highest precision presently, the further improvement in the accuracy is heavily dependent on the time-domain properties of the pulse as well as the sensitivity of the applied measurement on the exchanged pulse. The application of optical frequency comb in time transfer for a precision up to femtosecond level are currently the focus of much interest, and has recently achieved many breakthroughs. Further investigations show that, utilizing quantum techniques, i.e. quantum measurement technique and quantum optical pulse source, can lead to a new limit on the measured timing information. Furthermore, it can be immune from atmospheric parameters, such as pressure, temperature, humidity and so on. Such quantum improvements on time-transfer have a bright prospect in the future applications requiring extremely high-accuracy timing and ranging. The potential achievements will form a technical basis for the future realization of sub-femtosecond time transfer system.
出处
《时间频率学报》
CSCD
2016年第3期162-169,共8页
Journal of Time and Frequency
基金
国家自然科学基金资助项目(11174282
Y133ZK1101
91336108)
中国科学院前沿科学重点研究计划资助项目(QYZDB-SSW-SLH007)
中国科学院科研装备研制资助项目
中组部"青年拔尖人才支持计划"资助项目(组厅字〔2013〕33号)
关键词
高精度时间传递
量子优化
量子光频梳
脉冲整形
high-precision time transfer
quantum improvement
pulse shaping
quantum frequency comb
