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Fiber optic communications provides an enormous bandwidth for high speed data transmission. Optical fiber is an excellent transmission medium due to its robustness and low losses. However, the dispersive and nonlinear effects of an optical fiber may lead to signal distortions. In long haul communication systems, transmission impairments accumulate over the fiber distance and utterly distort the signal. By compensating for dispersive and nonlinear impairments the transmission performance can be significantly improved. In the present work, a theoretical analysis of various kinds of optical fiber nonlinearities, their thresholds and managements is carried out. Also, it focusses on various digital and optical methods to compensate for dispersive and nonlinear distortions, which significantly enhance transmission performance and system capacity. All over the paper, current applications dealing with these effects have been referred. The present paper will help the researchers in this field to find the aggregate material on the subject and further narrowing the topic selection for research work.
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Payal, Kumar, S. (2019). Nonlinear Impairments in Fiber Optic Communication Systems: Analytical Review. In: Singh, P., Paprzycki, M., Bhargava, B., Chhabra, J., Kaushal, N., Kumar, Y. (eds) Futuristic Trends in Network and Communication Technologies. FTNCT 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 958. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3804-5_3
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