This technical report provides guidelines for accommodation and compensation of dispersion. These techniques are generally used in the 1550 nm region with cables incorporating conventional dispersion-unshifted single-mode category B1 fibre (see IEC 60793-1 and IEC 60793-2). Compensation refers to techniques that reduce the dispersion or dispersion-slope of a fibre-optic link to enable transmission at higher digital bit-rates. Accommodation refers to techniques that utilize dispersion to enable transmission at higher digital bit rates (e.g. by optical or electrical prechirping, dispersion-assisted transmission, receiver signal processing).
This technical report provides guidelines for accommodation and compensation of dispersion. These techniques are generally used in the 1550 nm region with cables incorporating conventional dispersion-unshifted single-mode category B1 fibre (see IEC 60793-1 and IEC 60793-2). Compensation refers to techniques that reduce the dispersion or dispersion-slope of a fibre-optic link to enable transmission at higher digital bit-rates. Accommodation refers to techniques that utilize dispersion to enable transmission at higher digital bit rates (e.g. by optical or electrical prechirping, dispersion-assisted transmission, receiver signal processing).
