title: Optimal packaging of dispersion-compensating fibers for matched nonlinear compensation and reduced optical noise.
abstract: A method of packaging dispersion-compensating fibers (DCFs) is discussed that achieves optimal nonlinearity compensation and a good signal-to-noise ratio simultaneously. An optimally packaged dispersion-compensating module (DCM) may consist of portions of DCFs with higher and lower loss coefficients. Such optimized DCMs may be paired with transmission fibers to form scaled translation-symmetric lines that could effectively compensate for signal distortions due to dispersion and nonlinearity, with or without optical phase conjugation.
authors.affiliation: School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.
authors.forename: Haiqing
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: David V
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: Plant