Generalized Phase-Conjugated Twin Waves for Fiber- Nonlinearity-Tolerant Transmission

14 July 2014

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We review the generalization of phase-conjugated twin waves (PCTWs) for fibernonlinearity- tolerant transmission, in which twin waves occupy any orthogonal dimensions. A broadband polarization-insensitive fiber-optical parametric amplifier is shown to efficiently generate 1.024-Tb/s Nyquist-WDM vector PCTWs.