Regeneration of Airy pulses in fiber-optic links with dispersion management of the two leading dispersion terms of opposite signs

Dispersion management of periodically alternating fiber sections with opposite signs of two leading dispersion terms is applied for the regeneration of self-accelerating truncated Airy pulses. It is demonstrated that for such a dispersion management scheme, the direction of the acceleration of the pulse is reversed twice within each period. In this scheme the system features light hot spots in the center of each fiber section, where the energy of the light pulse is tightly focused in a short temporal slot. Comprehensive numerical studies demonstrate a long lasting propagation also under the influence of a strong fiber Kerr nonlinearity.