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IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Ambiguity-Free RF Frequency Measurement Using Tri-Comb Hierarchical Search on Rydberg-Atom Receivers

Tingting Wang, Di Sang, Yunqi Fu

Published Jan 1, 2026• 0 citations
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10.1109/tim.2026.3723530

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