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Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 7, 073901(2025)

Improving accuracy through double acousto-optic modulators in photonics-assisted mmWave heterodyne interferometric sensing

Yiwen Lu¹, Tong Yang¹, Qizhuang Cen², Xinpeng Wang¹, Chong Liu¹, Feifei Yin¹, Kun Xu¹, Ming Li², and Yitang Dai^1、*

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¹State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China

²Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China

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Yiwen Lu, Tong Yang, Qizhuang Cen, Xinpeng Wang, Chong Liu, Feifei Yin, Kun Xu, Ming Li, Yitang Dai, "Improving accuracy through double acousto-optic modulators in photonics-assisted mmWave heterodyne interferometric sensing," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 073901 (2025)

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Paper Information

Category: Microwave Photonics

Received: Dec. 17, 2024

Accepted: Feb. 11, 2025

Published Online: Jun. 4, 2025

The Author Email: Yitang Dai (ytdai@bupt.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202523.073901

CSTR:32184.14.COL202523.073901

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