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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2009
Jianjun Yu, Princeton, NJ (US);
Ting Wang, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Dayou Qian, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
An optical transmitter includes a dividing optical coupler, a first optical modulator driven by an I component of a first signal and a I component of a second signal for modulating a lightwave, a DC bias of the first optical, a second optical modulator driven by a Q component of the first signal and a Q component of the second signal for modulating a lightwave, a DC bias of the second optical modulator, a phase shifter, and a combining optical coupler for combining the modulated lightwave from the first optical coupler and the phase shifted Q components of the first and second signals for generating a quadrature amplitude modulated signal.