Timing jitter characteristics of RZ pulse nonlinear transmission on dispersion managed fiber link

One of the limitation factors on the achievable distance for long-haul nonl inear Return-to-Zero (RZ)-Gaussian pulse transmission on optical fiber link s is timing jitter. Although it is well known that the dispersion managemen t technique is very effective to reduce the timing jitter, comparisons amon g some dispersion management methods based on the timing jitter reduction h ave not been reported yet. In this paper, timing jitter reduction by some d ispersion management methods in nonlinear RZ-Gaussian pulse transmission sy stems are discussed. Moreover, we will report that the amount of timing jit ter at the receiver side drastically changes depending on the configuration of dispersion managed optical fiber transmission line.