Silicon high-speed binary phase-shift keying modulator with a single-drive push–pull high-speed traveling wave electrode

Jinting Wang; Linjie Zhou; Haike Zhu; Rui Yang; Yanyang Zhou; Lei Liu; Tao Wang; Jianping Chen

doi:10.1364/PRJ.3.000058

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