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Mehedi Hasan, Ramón Maldonado-Basilio, Trevor J Hall

    Optics Letters
    |June 2, 2015
    PubMed
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    This study introduces a dual-function photonic integrated circuit for microwave photonics. It enables both frequency up-conversion and tunable millimeter wave generation using a novel Mach-Zehnder interferometer design.

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