In this Review, we provide an overview of the advances in optical two-way time–frequency transfer, which began with characterizing the time–frequency transfer stability. Despite the high data transmission speed, the signal does not propagate instantly and requires time to cover the distance. When transmitting over. Ziyang Chen State Key Laboratory of Photonics and Communications, School of Electronics, and Center for Quantum Information Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Yufei Zhang State Key Laboratory of Photonics and Communications, School of Electronics, and Center for Quantum. For quantifying intermodal dispersion in telecom fibers, one usually specifies the differential mode delay (sometimes also called differential modal delay or differential group delay). This is often essentially understood as the difference between the maximum and minimum time delay (group delay) of. “Time Transfer between UTC(SP) and UTC(MIKE) Using Frame Detection in Fiber-Optical Communication networks”, S. Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI) Systems and Applications Meeting, (2011). In this review, we provide an overview of the. The high-precision time delay compensation system proposed in this paper is simple, reliable, and accurate; has a wide range of compensation; and opens up a feasible scheme for providing synchronized time signals to multiple users over the long-distance field optical fiber networks.