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Anna HIRAI Yuichi MATSUMOTO Takanori SATO Tadashi KAWAI Akira ENOKIHARA Shinya NAKAJIMA Atsushi KANNO Naokatsu YAMAMOTO
A Mach-Zehnder optical modulator with the tunable multimode interference coupler was fabricated using Ti-diffused LiNbO3. The modulation extinction ratio could be voltage controlled to maximize up to 50 dB by tuning the coupler. Optical single-sideband modulation was also achieved with a sideband suppression ratio of more than 30 dB.