ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the fiber characteristics in static parameters and dynamic characteristics in term of dispersion properties and nonlinear phase rotation effects. The guiding of lightwaves in an optical fiber is similar to that of the planar waveguide, except the lightwaves are guiding through a circular core embedded in circular cladding layer. The chapter proposes a new electronic nonlinearity compensation scheme based on the inverse of Volterra expansion. It focuses on the nonlinear transfer function of the single-mode optical fiber via the representation of the Volterra kernels, electronic digital processing technique is proposed with the algorithm based on the analytical version of the inverse Volterra series for compensation of the nonlinear. The chapter provides a brief introduction of the compensation of nonlinear effects via the use of nonlinear transfer functions and back propagation (BP) techniques. The BP was proposed as a universal technique for jointly compensating linear and nonlinear impairments.
