title: Dispersion and nonlinearity compensation by spectral phase conjugation.
abstract: We propose the use of spectral phase conjugation to compensate for dispersion of all orders, self-phase modulation, and self-steepening of an optical pulse in a fiber. Although this method cannot compensate for loss and intrapulse Raman scattering, it is superior to the previously suggested midway temporal phase conjugation method if high-order dispersion is a main source of distortion. The reshaping performance of our proposed scheme and a combined temporal and spectral phase conjugation scheme in the presence of uncompensated effects is studied numerically.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA. mankei@sunoptics.caltech.edu
authors.forename: Mankei
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsang
authors.forename: Demetri
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Psaltis