C. Kurtzke et A. Gnauck, THE OPERATING PRINCIPLE OF IN-LINE AMPLIFIED DISPERSION-SUPPORTED TRANSMISSION, Electronics Letters, 29(22), 1993, pp. 1972-1974
Dispersion supported transmission (DST) has been presented as a linear
scheme to extend the linear chromatic-dispersion limit. Although such
a scheme is possible, the Letter clarifies that the recently demonstr
ated DST 10Gbit/s transmission over 252km is definitely predicated on
fibre nonlinearities.