Link-Placement Characterization of Optical Phase Conjugation for Nonlinearity Compensation

The impact of the OPC offset on the nonlinearity compensation is experimentally investigated, achieving gains up to 0.6-dB SNR and 0.17-bit/symbol mutual information with optimal mid-link OPC for dispersion-compensated transmission up to 966 km.

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