Abstract: An optical transmitter for compensating signal distortion, the optical transmitter includes an input for accepting a signal, a laser driver for amplifying and/or reshaping the signal, a distributed feedback laser diode coupled to the laser driver for signal modulation, a nonlinear material coupled to the distributed feedback laser diode for compensating signal distortions caused by the laser diode, and an output for sending the signal to the transmission link.

Abstract: An optical transmission system comprising an input for accepting a signal, a laser diode within an optical transmitter for signal modulation and/or for signal amplification, a nonlinear material for compensating signal distortions, a transmission fiber for signal transmission, and an optical receiver for receiving the signal. The optical transmission system may include a multiple of input signals, each input signal fed into one of a multiple of optical transmitters. Each of the multiple of optical transmitters is coupled to a nonlinear material. The output of each nonlinear material is coupled to an optical multiplexer for multiplexing the multiple of input signals into a multiplexed signal for transmission through a transmission fiber. The multiplexed signal is then de-multiplexed into a multiple of de-multiplexed signals, each de-multiplexed signal corresponding to each of the multiple of input signals, and each de-multiplexed signal is received by one of a multiple of receivers.