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Vol. 9, Issue 2, 98 (2021)

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Yuan Yao^1、†, Bo Li^1、†, Guang Yang¹, Xiaotong Chen¹, Yaqin Hao¹, Hongfu Yu¹, Yanyi Jiang^{1、2、3、*}, and Longsheng Ma^{1、2、4、*}

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¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

²Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

³e-mail: yyjiang@phy.ecnu.edu.cn

⁴e-mail: lsma@phy.ecnu.edu.cn

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Yuan Yao, Bo Li, Guang Yang, Xiaotong Chen, Yaqin Hao, Hongfu Yu, Yanyi Jiang, Longsheng Ma. Optical frequency synthesizer referenced to an ytterbium optical clock[J]. Photonics Research, 2021, 9(2): 98 Copy Citation Text

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