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Mikhail E. Belkin1 \*, Dmitriy Fofanov1 , Vladislav Golovin2 , Yuriy Tyschuk<sup>2</sup> and Alexander S. Sigov1

1 Moscow State Technological University (MIREA), Scientific and Technological Center "Integrated Microwave Photonics", Moscow, Russian Federation

2 Sevastopol State University (SevSU), Sevastopol, Russian Federation

\*Address all correspondence to: belkin@mirea.ru

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