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Embracing nonlinearity

Nature Photonics volume 11, pages 537–539 (2017)Cite this article

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An innovative data transmission protocol that effectively makes an optical fibre link linear in its behaviour is shown to benefit high-speed, long-distance optical communication operating at high signal powers.

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Figure 1: Schematic of the nonlinear OFDM transmission system of Le and colleagues.

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