Abstract
We demonstrated high extinction ratio intensity modulation for two-tone lightwave generation, by using an integrated Mach-Zehnder modulator with active trimmers which can compensate imbalance in the modulator due to fabrication errors. The extinction ratio was larger than 70dB.
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