Abstract
It is shown that the performance limitations from Rayleigh backscattering in a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror can be minimized using additional dispersion imbalance. Phase-preserving amplitude regeneration of a 100 Gbit/s 25%-RZ-DPSK signal has been investigated numerically.
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