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Coherent regeneration

The realization of an all-optical phase and amplitude regenerator could help take coherent optical communication to new distances and transmission speeds.

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Figure 1: Eye diagrams and differential constellation diagrams showing bit-to-bit phase changes.

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Radic, S. Coherent regeneration. Nature Photon 4, 669–670 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2010.224

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