Abstract
Optical quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) is experimentally demonstrated with a low-complexity, small form-factor and lossless modulator based on a semiconductor optical amplifier and electro-absorption modulator. Flexible amplitude/phase format transmission up to 8-QAM is validated.
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