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A fibre with two dissimilar cores can be used as an all-optical equaliser to regenerate a signal degraded by chromatic dispersion in a long optical fibre link. For this, the two-core fibre has to be linearly tapered. The achievable dispersion of such a device is discussed, and a design example shown.
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