All-fiber-photonics-based ultralow-noise agile frequency synthesizer for X-band radars

Juan Wei; Dohyeon Kwon; Shuangyou Zhang; Shilong Pan; Jungwon Kim

doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.000012

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