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by mrjoeblack 3744 days ago
Close, but dispersion compensation is now very easy to do digitally, and has very little impact on system performance now. As for power, it is actually the opposite, optical systems are ultimately limited in reach by nonlinearity, and so you can not just increase the transmit power like you might do in a wireless system, even if your amplifiers were very linear.