RZ VERSUS NRZ IN NONLINEAR WDM SYSTEMS

Authors
FORGHIERI F PRUCNAL PR TKACH RW CHRAPLYVY AR
Citation
F. Forghieri et al., RZ VERSUS NRZ IN NONLINEAR WDM SYSTEMS, IEEE photonics technology letters, 9(7), 1997, pp. 1035-1037
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Optics,"Physics, Applied
Journal title
IEEE photonics technology letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
10411135
Volume
9
Issue
7
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1035 - 1037
Database
ISI
SICI code
1041-1135(1997)9:7<1035:RVNINW>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
The issue of what is the best duty cycle in an intensity-modulated dir ect-detection optical system keeps resurfacing. Here, this issue is ad dressed from a transmission point of view for a wavelength division-mu ltiplexed (WDM) system. It is shown that nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) is mo re robust to optical fiber transmission impairments for both already d eployed systems and new systems in which the dispersion map is a desig n parameter.