Microwave photonics: radio-over-fiber links, systems, and applications [Invited]

Kun Xu; Ruixin Wang; Yitang Dai; Feifei Yin; Jianqiang Li; Yuefeng Ji; and Jintong Lin

doi:10.1364/PRJ.2.000B54

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