Patent ID: 6970052

Claim:
A modulator comprising: an operational amplifier to one of whose input ends are inputted video signals and to another of the input ends is applied a reference voltage; and a video mixer into which carrier wave signals and video signals amplified by the operational amplifier are applied, wherein the reference voltage is varied in accordance with a gain of the video mixer with a variation in temperature, the video mixer comprises: a double-balance mixer including a first differential amplifier and a second differential amplifier each having two transistors, the video signals amplified by the operational amplifier are applied to emitters of the transistors of the first differential amplifier, the carrier wave signals are applied to bases of the two transistors of the first differential amplifier and to bases of the two transistors of the second differential amplifier, and voltages of the emitters of the transistors of the second differential amplifier are superposed over the reference voltage.