Abstract
Midspan spectral inversion (MSSI) has been used to compensate for first-order chromatic dispersion in optical fiber transmission systems.1 MSSI, unlike other dispersion compensation schemes such as compensating fiber or Bragg gratings, can also reduce the effects of fiber nonlinearities.2 This is significant because nonlinearities may ultimately limit transmission capacity, MSSI has been shown experimentally to reduce self-phase modulation in single-wavelength transmission,3 and to reduce four-wave mixing in multiwavelength (WDM) transmission.4 MSSI has also been shown numerically to reduce the effects of stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) in single-wavelength soliton transmission,5 and has been proposed for reducing SRS in multiwavelength transmission systems.6
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