Dual-carrier IQ modulator using a complementary frequency shifter

We devised a dual-carrier IQ modulator incorporating a novel complementary frequency shifter. The modulator was fabricated with a PLC-LiNbO3 hybrid integrated circuit, and it successfully generated a 100-Gb/s/pol OFDM-QPSK signal.

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