Demonstration of high-fidelity dynamic optical arbitrary waveform generation

Interfacing two I/Q modulators and a passband shaped spectral demultiplexer allows the coherent combination of two arbitrary modulated spectral lines to generate dynamic optical waveforms with 20 GHz bandwidth and 6 ns record lengths.

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