D. Eliyahu et al., RETARDATION AND REDUCTION OF PULSE DISTORTION BY GROUP-VELOCITY DISPERSION THROUGH PULSE SHAPING, Optics letters, 20(12), 1995, pp. 1412-1414
We show that a reduction in the pulse distortion caused by chromatic d
ispersion can be achieved through pulse shaping. We argue that a simpl
e binary phase mask in the Fourier plane of the laser spectrum can imp
rove the transmission of short pulses in a dispersive channel through
reduced broadening. The argument was tested experimentally, and a good
agreement was found with the theory.