TiFOON final consortium meeting October 19, 2022 The TiFOON partners gathered at PTB, Braunschweig, Germany for a final project meeting on 4-5 October 2022. This was the first time the consortium had met in person since the project kick-off meeting in 2019, and 22 attendees from 12 of the 15 partner organisations were present in the room with a further 4 joining… Read More
International school of Physics “Basics and Applications of Optical Fiber Links and Frequency Combs” November 11, 2021 The second edition of the school dedicated to the Basics and Applications of Optical Fiber Links and Frequency Combs will take place from 18 to 22 April, 2022, at Les Houches, in the French Alpes. It will be host by the School of Physics with a total number of attendants of 70 people, including speakers.… Read More
TiFOON stakeholder workshop summary available June 29, 2021 The EMPIR TiFOON (Time and Frequency Over Optical Networks) project held a highly successful stakeholder workshop on 9-10 February 2021. More than 100 participants from a broad range of backgrounds heard an informative series of presentations from experts in industry, academia and research. A discussion session at the end of each day collected feedback and… Read More
TiFOON Stakeholder Workshop 9-10 Feb 2021 January 19, 2021 The TiFOON project is hosting a free two-day workshop Time and Frequency Dissemination over Optical Fibre Networks, examining state of the art and future developments and applications in dissemination of time and frequency over optical fibre networks. The workshop will take place 9 – 10 February 2021, 09:00-15:00 UTC (10:00-16:00 CET) via Zoom. Attendance on… Read More
Publications from TiFOON results November 11, 2020 As we are coming to M18 of the TiFOON project we would like to make note of the publications that were made as a result of work in the project. The publications are listed below and the lead authors are all members of the consortium. Combining fiber Brillouin amplification with a repeater laser station for… Read More
Webinar: Resilient Time for the Future for Telecoms September 1, 2020 Join NPL and BT to learn how time and synchronisation has developed over the past decades and about the fundamentals of traceable time and distribution. Technical Focus Sessions will be presented on fixed and wireless infrastructure, monitoring, and GNSS derived time, to give you a solid foundation of how time is used and distributed… Read More
Combination of Brillouin amplification and a repeater laser station supports frequency transfer with 20 digit accuracy March 10, 2020 TiFOON partners PTB, LPL (Université Paris 13) and LNE-SYRTE have demonstrated more than 5 days of phase-coherent operation of the optical fibre link between Braunschweig and Strasbourg. The architecture, a combination of a Repeater Laser Station and Fibre Brillouin Amplifiers, was analysed over several long segments of continuous operation, covering 65 days of data in… Read More
Bidirectional fibre is key for accurate optical frequency transfer March 10, 2020 TiFOON partners AGH and PSNC have studied the performance of optical frequency transfer in duplex unidirectional DWDM networks. This approach to optical frequency transfer uses existing telecommunication infrastructure without the need for modifications to the installed fibre and equipment, making it very cost effective compared to dark fibre or dark channel. The research, published in… Read More
POSTPONED Workshop: Time and Frequency Dissemination over Optical Fibre Networks February 20, 2020 Please note that this workshop has been postponed as a result of the covid-19 situation. We are aiming to reschedule it for early 2021 but please check this website for updates as the circumstances evolve.… Read More
TiFOON kick-off meeting December 10, 2019 The kick-off meeting for the three-year EMPIR project, Time and Frequency Over Optical Networks (TiFOON), was held at NPL from 24th – 25th June 2019. The consortium consists of 15 partners from 9 European countries (including the UK), ranging from NMIs through academic institutions to network operators and equipment manufacturers. It brings together long-established players… Read More
