Joint Pre-, Inline-, and Post-Compensation of Spectrum Narrowing Caused by Traversing Multiple Optical Nodes

We propose a novel scheme to compensate the spectrum narrowing caused by optical nodes. Simulations show that our combination of jointly optimized pre- and post-compensation filters and inline power compensation can drastically enlarge the maximum node-hop count and transmission distance.

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