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Nanoscale signal regeneration

The regeneration of weak and distorted optical signals is vital in long-haul optical communication systems. Now scientists at Cornell University have developed an all-optical scheme that performs the task and is small enough to fit on a chip.

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Figure 1: In a communication link, digital bits in a fibre will be deformed owing to noise, nonlinear phase shift and jitter accumulation.
Figure 2: Four-wave mixing explained.

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Boyraz, O. Nanoscale signal regeneration. Nature Photon 2, 12–13 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.261

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