Influence of Atmospheric Dispersion on Deviation of Satellite-to-Earth Laser Unidirectional Time Transfer Link

Zixuan Xing; Lin Lu; Weiheng Dai; Peng Xiang; Jilin Zheng; Rong Xu

doi:10.3788/AOS230619

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