High sideband suppression silicon single sideband modulator integrated with a radio frequency branch line coupler

Penghui Xia; Hui Yu; Mingxiang Yang; Naidi Cui; Haijun Liao; Qiang Zhang; Zhilei Fu; Qikai Huang; Nannan Ning; Zhujun Wei; Xiaoqing Jiang; Jianyi Yang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.473778

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