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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 23, Issue 2, 020601 (2025)

Novel compensation technique for mitigating dispersion in fiber-optic microwave frequency transfer systems

Shaoshao Yu^1,2, Wenyu Zhao^1,2, Xin Wang^1,2, Xinghua Li^1,2, and Shougang Zhang^1,2,*

Author Affiliations

¹Key Laboratory of Time Reference and Applications, National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710600, China

²University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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