Electronic dispersion compensation of non-ideal multimode fiber links

We study the capability of electronic filters to equalize challenging examples of 500 MHz-km compliant 62.5 micron multimode fibers representative of the installed base. Most cannot be equalized via conventional EDC with acceptable power penalty.

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