Tunable 6-stage lattice-form Mach-Zehnder interferometer for arbitrary binary code generation at 40 GHz

We demonstrate a tunable planar lightwave circuit for arbitrary 4-bit binary code generation at 40 GHz. The device is a 6-stage lattice-form Mach-Zehnder interferometer fabricated in silica-on-silicon technology.

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