Laura Sinclair

Publications

Femtosecond Time Synchronization of Optical Clocks Off a Flying Quadcopter

April 18, 2019

Author(s):

Hugo Bergeron, Laura C. Sinclair, William C. Swann, Isaac H. Khader, Kevin C. Cossel, Michael A. Cermak, Jean-Daniel Deschenes, Nathan R. Newbury

Optical clock networks promise advances in global navigation, time distribution, coherent sensing, relativity experiments, dark matter searches and other...

Measurement of the impact of turbulence anisoplanatism on precision free-space optical time transfer

February 27, 2019

Author(s):

William C. Swann, Martha I. Bodine, Isaac H. Khader, Jean-Daniel Deschenes, Esther Baumann, Laura C. Sinclair, Nathan R. Newbury

Future highly precise free-space optical clock networks will require optically-based two-way time and frequency transfer links. As these networks extend over...

Femtosecond Optical Two-Way Time-Frequency Transfer in the Presence of Motion

February 22, 2019

Author(s):

Laura C. Sinclair, Hugo Bergeron, William C. Swann, Isaac H. Khader, Kevin C. Cossel, Michael A. Cermak, Nathan R. Newbury, Jean-Daniel Deschenes

Platform motion poses significant challenges to high-precision optical time and frequency transfer. We give a detailed description of these challenges and...

Time Synchronization over a Free-Space Optical Communication Channel

December 20, 2018

Author(s):

Isaac H. Khader, Laura C. Sinclair, William C. Swann, Hugo Bergeron, Nathan R. Newbury, Jean-Daniel Deschenes

Free space optical (FSO) communication channels are typically used to transmit high-speed data between sites over the air. Here we repurpose an FSO digital...

An Integrated-Photonics Optical-Frequency Synthesizer

May 03, 2018

Author(s):

Daryl T. Spencer, Tara E. Drake, Travis Briles, Jordan R. Stone, Laura C. Sinclair, Connor D. Fredrick, Qing Li, Daron A. Westly, Bojan R. Ilic, Aaron Bluestone, Nicolas Volet, Tin Komljenovic, Seung Hoon Lee, Dong Yoon Oh, Myoung-Gyun Suh, Ki Youl Yang, Martin H. Pfeiffer, Tobias J. Kippenberg, Erik Norberg, Kerry Vahala, Kartik A. Srinivasan, Nathan R. Newbury, Luke Theogarajan, John E. Bowers, Scott A. Diddams, Scott B. Papp

Integrated-photonics microchips now enable a range of advanced functionalities for high- coherence applications like data transmission, for highly optimized...