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Microwave Frequency Transfer over Optical Fibre

Sascha Schediwy

Published Dec 8, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report on an optical fibre frequency transfer technique that avoids traditional group-delay actuation bandwidth- and range-limitations to deliver world-leading optical- and microwave-frequency transfer performance.

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