Abstract

We report on a novel technique to compensate for all-order polarization-mode dispersion. By means of this technique, based on a suitable combination of phase modulation and group-velocity dispersion, we compensated for as much as 60 ps of differential group delay that affected a $10‐\mathrm{Gbit}/\mathrm{s}$ return-to-zero data stream.

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