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https://www.nist.gov/patents/inventors/1162456
Search Patents by Laura Sinclair
Patents listed here reflect only technologies patented from FY 2018-present. To view all of NIST's patented technologies, visit the NIST pages on the Federal Laboratory Consortium website.
Laura Sinclair
,
William C. Swann
and
JD Deschenes
A synchronizer for synchronizing transfer over an optical link includes a frequency reference oscillator; a tracking optical timing source; a tracking comb signal; a signal processor-controller; a comb timing discriminator; a clock frequency comb; a bidirectional terminal; a time-frequency offset
Laura Sinclair
,
William C. Swann
and
JD Deschenes
The invention is a method to compare and synchronize "clocks" (i.e., local timescales) through optical links across free space, which include open-air paths through the atmosphere to other terrestrial sites or to satellites, as well as satellite-to-satellite paths. The challenge is to compare the