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Silicon Photonic Single-Sideband Generation with Dual-Parallel Mach-Zehnder Modulators

Kodigala, Ashok; Gehl, Michael; Derose, C.T.; Hood, D.; Pomerene, A.T.; Dallo, Christina M.; Trotter, Douglas C.; Moore, P.; Starbuck, Andrew L.; Lee, Jongmin; Biedermann, Grant; Lentine, Anthony L.

We demonstrate the first silicon photonic single-sideband (SSB)modulator with dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZMs)operating near 1550 nm with a measured carrier suppression of 27 dB and at least 12 dB sideband suppression at 1 GHz.