Transfer of laser frequency from 729 nm to 1.5 &#181;m with precision at the level of 10−20

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

doi:10.3788/COL202220.081403

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