Optical Frequency Transfer over 60 km Urban Telecom Fiber Link

Pengcheng Fang; Zhendi Cai; Huanyao Sun; Yan Wang; Yanqi Xu; Qunfeng Chen

doi:10.3788/AOS202242.2306006

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